Ten Years of the Compensatory Mitigation Rule: Reflections on Progress and Opportunities

摘要

When asked about the Compensatory Mitigation Rule shortly after its issuance in 2008, Dr. Joy Zedler, the chair of the 2001 NRC Compensatory Mitigation Study Committee, said, "It could be the best of all worlds . . . or it could be the same old same old . . . It's all in the implementation."55 As the rule largely codified many of the committee's significant recommendations, the Corps and EPA can take some credit for rising to the first of Dr. Zedler's challenges.