| Technical
Advisory Committee to Elizabeth River
Restoration Trust Primary goals of The Elizabeth
River Restoration Trust are to accomplish as
many benefits to aquatic resources from
compensatory mitigation projects as possible
with the funds available and to ensure that the
Trust’s compensatory mitigation projects result
in no net loss of acreage, functions, and values
for the types of aquatic resource impacts that
were mitigated by payments into the Trust.
Purpose of the
advisory committee:
- To provide
technical advice to the Elizabeth River
Restoration Trust for the
purpose of achieving technically sound
mitigation projects.
- To provide
a sounding board for regulatory
representatives to provide informal
advice early-on regarding permit concerns
for proposed mitigation projects.
- Review and
comment on mitigation project proposals for
technical merit as time permits, especially
prior to construction of a major project.
- Review
data findings, as requested, for technical
comment regarding the bearing of the data on
the advisability of mitigation projects.
- Identify
and provide advice regarding potential
regulatory concerns for
implementing mitigation projects.
- Provide
technical advice regarding monitoring and
maintenance planning for mitigation
projects.
Selection
process:
The Board of Trustees of the Elizabeth River
Restoration Trust will identify
agencies and organizations that should be
invited to provide representation on the
advisory committee. For the immediate future,
the board delegates to staff of The
Elizabeth River Project (ERP), under contract to
provide project management and
administrative support to the Trust, to
communicate with each agency regarding the most
appropriate representative to participate at any
given time. (see attached agency list)
To whom the advisory committee reports:
Recommendations of the advisory board will be
reported to the Board of Trustees
of the Elizabeth River Restoration Trust by ERP
staff (or the committee chair for major
projects, as time allows).
Committee
coordination/staff support:
The committee will be coordinated for the
immediate future by staff of The Elizabeth River
Project, currently under contract to provide
project management and administrative support to
the Trust. It will be the responsibility of
Elizabeth River Project staff to provide
orientation to committee members and timely
communication regarding committee business,
including agendas and minutes.
Anticipated
meeting schedule:
It is anticipated that the committee will
meet no more than quarterly, beginning in
December, 2004, although there may be a need for
smaller ad hoc committees to take up
timely issues in-between. |
