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... 1Executive Summary The nine-step Integrated Ecological Framework (the Framework or IEF) is designed to support and promote integrated transportation and conservation planning while expediting transportation project delivery.
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... 2Table ES.1. Steps of the Ecological Assessment Framework Step Purpose Step 1: Build and strengthen collaborative partnerships, vision Build support among a group of stakeholders to achieve a statewide or regional planning process that integrates conservation and transportation planning.
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... 3environmental outcomes through reduced impacts, identification of high-quality mitigation and enhancement opportunities, and accelerated permitting through proactive inclusion of resource considerations early in the process. Rather than a radical new approach, the CEAA process brings together a variety of well-tested methods, data, and tools into a cohesive ecological assessment framework.
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... 4and mitigation requirements. This project explored new approaches to regulatory assurances and environmental accounting and how they could be used within the overall Framework if transportation and resource agencies choose to do so.
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... 5USFWS has been working to obtain the funding to complete this data set, but with current protocols and funding levels, it will be decades before the country has digital wetlands data sufficiently updated to be used by transportation planners and accepted by regulators as meaningful attempts at avoidance and minimization. The team's research looked at case studies to create digital data lacking from Oregon and to improve data from Michigan and Virginia.
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... 6This approach to ecosystem metrics from the landscape scale to the site level, from alternatives analysis to outcome-based mitigation for specific projects, is addressed throughout the CEAA process. A separate step addressing the use of crediting systems is included in the Framework, providing specific guidance for transportation agencies on how to develop and use ecosystem crediting systems and markets.

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