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Impacts Associated with Wedand Fiil To create parRing and site access, 4,352 SF of wetland is proposed to be filled. Wetiand functions and values to be lost include 4,352 SF of feeding and foraging bird habitat, amphibian habitat, species diversity, as weil as water storage and water qi:ality improvement. Proposed Impacts and Mitigation Summary Pr000sed Impact Mitivation Tvae Pr000sed Mitiqation Area Permanent Wetland Impact: Wetland Replacement Snohomish Mitigation Bank (1:1): 4,352 SF 4,352 SF (1/10'"Acre) Proposed Conceptual Mitigation To compensate for wetland fiil, 4,352 SF of wetland replacement via the Snohomish Mitigation Bank is being proposed. Although the Mitigation Bank is located in WRIA 7 and this project is in WRIA 8, the Mitigation Banking Instrument allows for use of the mitigation bank for projects in WRIA 8 and other Snohomish County and King County areas where the appropriate regulatory agencies agree that such mitigation would be practicable and environmentally preferable to other mitigation alternatives (Section 9, Service Area, Mitigatiun 8anki�g Instrument►. In this case, the mitigation bank is providing replacement wetlands of much higher functions and values than the existing wetlands, and replacement of the wetland is environmentally preferable to enhancement, as an in-kind mitigation. Use of the Mitigation Bank Credits meets the criteria in EMC 19.37.120(C)(12), in that: • No on-site or off-site mitigation in the immediate vicinity is available. • The wetland being altered is of a lower quality and has lesser fundions that the wetland which is being used for the mitigation banking. • The Mitigation Bank is a State approved site, which has wetland created from a site which was previously non-wetland, and is monitored by the State Department of Ecology to ensure it is successfully functioning. The Mitigation 5ank has been approved by all of the appropriate state and federat agencies, including the Department of Ecology, US Army Corps of Engineers, EPA, and Snohomish County. Mitigation Detail This project has been approved by the City of Everelt and a contract shall be signed for purchase of one-tenth of an acre of credifs from the Snohomish Mitigation Bank. The mitigation ratio for Categary 111 wetlanda given in the Mitigation Banking Instrument is one to one, in tenthof-an-acre increments. The Mitigation Credits include the required buffer areas for the wetland. EMC 19.37.12(C)�12)�b) states that►eplacement raHos shall tre consistent with the terms and cundkions of the bank's cerGficaUon. z � 3