Welcome to the Home of the National Wetlands Mitigation Action Plan. In response to independent critiques of the effectiveness of wetland compensatory mitigation for authorized losses of wetlands and other waters under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, and Transportation released the National Wetlands Mitigation Action Plan on December 26, 2002. The Plan includes 17 tasks that the agencies will complete by the end of 2005 to improve the ecological performance and results of compensatory mitigation.

MAP Announcements: The 2005 Mitigation Stakeholder Forum, planned for September 20-22, 2005, in Madison, Wisconsin, has been postponed until 2006. The Forum has been postponed as the MAP Interagency Workgroup awaits release of the Mitigation Rulemaking called for in the 2004 National Defense Authorization Act. Although this Rulemaking is not one of the MAP's action items, it does address the issue of compensatory mitigation and therefore may influence the MAP's guidance documents and other products. The rescheduled Mitigation Stakeholder Forum will include discussion on the new Mitigation Rulemaking and its relation to the MAP. Dates for the rescheduled forum will be finalized in the coming months and this website will be updated accordingly.

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