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<br /> <br />45 <br /> <br />f. Opportunities to implement restoration actions formally identified by any of the <br />following plans (or equivalent plans): an adopted shoreline restoration plan; a <br />watershed planning document prepared and adopted pursuant to Chapter 90.82 <br />RCW; and/or a salmonid recovery plan or project that has been identified on the <br />Salmon Recovery Board Habitat Project List or by the Washington State Department <br />of Fish and Wildlife as essential for fish and wildlife habitat enhancement. <br />4. Timing. Where feasible, mitigation projects shall be completed prior to or concurrently with <br />permitted and approved alterations and development that will disturb fish and wildlife habitat <br />conservation areas. In all other cases, as approved by the Director, mitigation shall be <br />completed as quickly as possible following disturbance and, aside from monitoring <br />requirements, shall be completed prior to use or occupancy of the alteration or development. <br />Construction of mitigation projects shall be timed to reduce impacts to existing fish, wildlife <br />and flora; provided, that the Director may adjust the timing requirements to allow grading, <br />planting, and other alterations to occur during the appropriate season(s). <br />5. Location. Compensatory mitigation shall be provided on-site or off-site in the location that <br />will provide the greatest ecological benefit to the species and/or habitats affected and have <br />the greatest likelihood of success. Mitigation shall occur as close to the impact site as <br />possible, within the same sub-basin, and in a similar habitat type as the permitted alteration <br />unless the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Director through a watershed- or <br />landscape-based analysis that mitigation within an alternative sub-basin of the same <br />watershed would have greater ecological benefit. <br />6. Design. Mitigation projects involving in-water work including, but not limited to, stream <br />relocation and installation of engineered large woody debris structures shall be professionally <br />engineered and designed to ensure there are no adverse hydraulic effects on upstream or <br />downstream properties, and shall comply with all applicable permits such as a hydraulic <br />project approval (HPA) from the WA Department of Fish and Wildlife.