Summary
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDMS) is soliciting proposals for full delivery projects to provide Cold Stream and Riparian Wetland mitigation credits within Cataloguing Unit 06010108 of the French Broad River Basin. Proposers must provide mitigation credits through restoration, enhancement, or preservation projects and ensure long-term protection via a conservation easement held by the State of North Carolina; certain properties (e.g., those purchased with Clean Water Management Trust Fund monies) are ineligible. The contract term is ten years with two optional one-year renewals and the solicitation is intended to meet permit compensatory mitigation requirements under GS 143-214.11(i).