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State ARM Fund outlines 2025 grant round, urges towns to identify local mitigation projects
Summary
Representatives of New Hampshire’s Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund described how in‑lieu fees are collected and awarded, outlined eligible project types, and announced an early‑April call for pre‑proposals for the Salmon Falls/Piscataqua service area.
Emily Nichols, the ARM Fund program manager, and Sarah Betzel, an ARM project manager, presented to the Redwood Conservation Commission on the ARM (Aquatic Resource Mitigation) in‑lieu fee program and the 2025 grant round.
The presenters said the ARM Fund accepts payments from permittees who cannot avoid or fully mitigate impacts to aquatic resources, pools payments by watershed service area, and uses those funds to sponsor larger restoration, enhancement, creation or permanent protection projects. "We are an in lieu fee program that provides sustainable compensatory mitigation to offset losses and degradation of aquatic resources in New Hampshire that are authorized by state and federal permit decisions," Nichols said.
Nichols and Betzel explained why the in‑lieu fee model now has priority under state rules and federal guidance: pooled funds make larger, landscape‑scale projects more feasible than small, permittee‑led efforts that have often failed. The presenters described the nine ARM service areas…
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