California Fish and Game Code

§ 1799

FGC § 1799 Effective Jan 1, 2013Div. 2 · Ch. 7.9

Statute text

(a)Until the department has approved a bank, in writing, and, if applicable, a conservation easement has been recorded on the site, no bank shall be operative, vested, or final, nor bank credits issued. No amendment to an approved bank shall be effective without the written approval of the department.

(b)Following approval of a final bank agreement package and establishment of a bank, the department shall conduct compliance review activities as provided in the approved bank enabling instrument.

(c)(1) The department shall establish and maintain a database that allows bank sponsors to accurately update and add information about mitigation and conservation banks. This data shall be available on the department’s Internet Web site or accessible by a link from the department’s Internet Web site. The available information shall include, but is not limited to, the total number of each type of bank credit, the types of credits sold or obligated, the number of credits sold or obligated, the number of credits applied, the balance of each type of credit remaining, the status of the species and habitat at the bank, links to the bank’s long-term management plans, and links to the complete annual monitoring reports required by departmental policy.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 565, Sec. 14. (SB 1148) Effective January 1, 2013.