New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 7A - FRESHWATER WETLANDS PROTECTION ACT RULES
Subchapter 11 - MITIGATION
Section 7:7A-11.8 - Mitigation for a temporary disturbance
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:7A-11.8
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Mitigation for a temporary disturbance shall be performed as follows:
1. For a
disturbance of non-forested freshwater wetlands or of State open waters,
restoration of the area temporarily disturbed; or
2. For a disturbance of forested freshwater
wetlands, either:
i. Restoration of the area
temporarily disturbed to a forested wetland; or
ii. Restoration of the area temporarily
disturbed to a non-forested wetland, and in addition, one acre of mitigation in
accordance with this subchapter for each acre of disturbance.
(b) The transition area for a temporary disturbance shall be as follows:
1. If the mitigation is restoration performed
on the site of the disturbance, the transition area shall be that which was
required for the wetland prior to the temporary disturbance; and
2. If additional mitigation is performed
under (a)2ii above, the width of the transition area on the mitigation area
shall be the width required at N.J.A.C. 7:7A-11.12(c), as applicable.
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