- (a) After the department has issued a permit in accordance with the wetlands rules and prior to the conservation interest being recorded, the natural resources existing on the conservation easement parcel shall not be removed, disturbed, or altered without prior written approval of the department and the easement holder.
(b) After the department has issued a permit in accordance with the wetlands rules and prior to work commencing on a project for which the mitigation plan requires a conservation interest to be acquired, the permittee shall:
- (1) If the conservation interest is an easement, obtain the signature of the grantee on the document conveying the interest for each parcel to be preserved;
- (2) Record each document that conveys a conservation interest for each parcel to be preserved at the registry of deeds for the county in which the parcel is located;
- (3) Submit a copy of each recorded document to the department; and
- (4) Submit a digitized polygon file, if available, to be incorporated into the department’s geographic information system (GIS) conservation lands layer for the location of compensatory mitigation parcels.
- (c) Within 60 days after issuance of the permit, the permittee shall submit verification that the compensatory mitigation area has been marked by permanent monuments and signs indicating the location of the area.
Source. #8062, eff 3-13-04; ss by #8341, eff 4-25-05; ss by #8911, eff 6-20-07; ss by #11000, eff 2-1-16 (formerly Env-Wt 806.02); ss by #12808, eff 12-15-19 (See Revision Note #2 at chapter heading for Env-Wt 800)