• The North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program: Managing The Future

    NCDOT Research Project Number: CTE-056

Executive Summary


  • Chartered in 2001 the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP) is well into implementation. It represents a new national model for providing mitigation for environmental impacts. The numerous national awards that EEP has received are validation that this new approach is an important step forward in balancing infrastructure needs in a growing economy with protection and enhancement of natural resources that are essential to North Carolina’s quality of life. EEP has reached a milestone in its implementation, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) along with its EEP partners, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) and the United States Corps of Engineers-Wilmington District (ACOE), requested the preparation of this report. The purpose of this report is to document briefly the history of the EEP, to summarize the regulatory environment that it operates within, to identify some of the emerging issues and directions it faces, and to make recommendations on next steps the EEP can take to continue to advance this new approach to mitigation.

  
Roger Sheats
Researchers
  
Roger Sheats; James B. Martin
  
Mrinmay "Moy" Biswas
  
Mustan Kadibhai, PE, CPM

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Report Period

  • January 2006 - December 2006

Status

  • Complete

Category

  • Environment and Hydraulics

Sub Category

  • Wetlands Mitigation

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