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Project Name and/or Number: Hugo (Gregoire) Solar Garden Attachment D Replacement/Compensatory Mitigation Complete this part if your application involves wetland replacement/compensatory mitigation not associated with the local road wetland replacement program. Applicants should consult Corps mitigation guidelines and WCA rules for requirements. Replacement/Compensatory Mitigation via Wetland Banking. Complete this section if you are proposing to use credits from an existing wetland bank (with an account number in the State wetland banking system) for all or part of your replacement/compensatory mitigation requirements. Bank Wetland Bank Major Credit Type County Service Number of Credits Account # Watershed # (if applicable) Area # 1537 Anoka 20 7 Type 2 — Wet 0.39 Meadow Applicants should attach documentation indicating that they have contacted the wetland bank account owner and reached at least a tentative agreement to utilize the identified credits for the project. This documentation could be a signed purchase agreement, signed application for withdrawal of credits or some other correspondence indicating an agreement between the applicant and the bank owner. However, applicants are advised not to enter into a binding agreement to purchase credits until the mitigation plan is approved by the Corps and LGU. The Project and permanent wetland impact are located in the less than 50% pre -settlement wetland zone. The Project is located in Washington County, and is not within the Rice Creek Watershed District Comprehensive Wetland Protection and Management Plan Boundary or Wetland Management Corridor. The Project is located in the 7- county metro within Wetland Banking Service Area 7. The Project is encompassed by the Hardwood Creek Minor Watershed and the Mississippi River —Twin Cities Major Watershed (watershed # 20). The City of Hugo, as the administrator of WCA for this Project, requires wetland replacement ratios according to WCA standards. Based on the location of the project and wetland impacts, replacement is required at a 2:1 ratio. Available fresh wet meadow credits were identified at wetland banks #1537 and #1122. Both are located within the same Bank Service Area and Major Watershed as the Proposed Project. There are no wetland banks located within the Hardwood Creek Minor Watershed and no wet meadow credits are available within Washington County that are also within Bank Service Area 7. The two wetland banks contacted are relatively close to the Proposed Project site compared to other bank sites in the Service Area and have wet meadow credit available to purchase for the purpose of this project. Bank #1537 signed a purchase agreement with the applicant. This bank has a total of 6.9456 acres of Fresh (wet) meadow credit. This project only requires 0.39 acres of replacement.