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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 00:00 |
 The NBHCP mitigates for urban development in the Natomas Basin by providing for the establishment of a reserve system composed of wetland and upland habitats, managed marshes, and rice lands, and composed of mitigation lands located primarily inside the Basin, unless out-of-Basin mitigation is approved by the USFWS and CDFG or is recommended by the Giant Garter Snake Recovery Plan, and requires the maintenance of a 0.5-to-1 mitigation ratio.
A key NBHCP requirement is that at least 25 percent of habitat mitigation lands be established as managed marsh, unless the USFWS allows otherwise based on its future Giant Garter Snake Recovery Plan.
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