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BWSR urges steady funding for wetland-replacement credits and CREP easements to keep local road projects moving
Summary
The Board of Water and Soil Resources told the committee that a stable funding source is needed for the local government roads wetland replacement program and for expanded CREP conservation easements, which leverage federal dollars to restore wetlands and protect marginal agricultural land.
John Jasky, executive director of the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, and Andrea Fish, assistant director, told the Capital Investment Committee Feb. 13 that both the local government roads wetland replacement program and the state’s federal CREP (Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program) partnership need stable capital funding to ensure local road projects can meet permit requirements.
"In cases where local government road projects would interfere, impede or necessarily go over a wetland, an existing wetland, they are required to replace those wetland acres within the state," Fish said, describing the statutory mandate that underpins the local government roads wetland…
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