Draft Formal Guidelines California Transportation Commission - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Advance Mitigation Program Draft Formal Guidelines California Transportation Commission Meeting January 30, 2019 Amy L. Bailey, Office Chief Strategic Biological Planning, Advance Mitigation, and Innovation Division of Environmental Analysis

Draft Formal Guidelines  Funding  Planning  Programming  Agency Coordination  Project Delivery  Credit Tracking  Reporting  Communications Plan  Risk Management

Key Guidelines Dates 2 0 1 8 2 0 1 9 NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR January 2019 Public Workshop #2 (Los Angeles) February/March 2019 November 2018 January 2019 Finalize Formal Guidelines • Distribute AB 115 Letters to Legislature Public Workshop #1 (Sacramento) • Post Draft Formal Guidelines to Web

Informal Draft Guidelines Input Received From Summary of Major Comments Draft Formal Guidelines Modifications  CA Transportation  Include Mitigation 101 and history of advance  Added history, definition of compensatory Commission mitigation mitigation, agency authorities for advance mitigation, and laws  Clarify agency authorities and laws  CA State Transportation Agency  Added detail about minimum annual  Clarify how program credits will be administered, programming delivered, and tracked  Orange County Transportation  Provided dates for schedule and CTC  Clarify roles of transportation and resource agencies Authority August report inclusion  Clarify use of advance mitigation by other  Rural Counties Task  Clarified engaging local project data transportation agencies Force request regarding planned STIP projects  Provide greater detail about project planning,  High Speed Rail programming, and delivery processes  Added coordination with transportation Authority agencies related to call for data,  Provide greater detail about agency coordination opportunity to review RAMNAs, and  CA Department of Fish excess credit availability  Provide greater detail about communication tools and Wildlife and opportunities  Added coordination with MPOs and  The Nature  Revise schedule of CTC report to August annually, Native American Tribes Conservancy per request  Added section on efficiencies  Address tracking Guidelines revisions  Added a revision log  Concept of pilot projects

Outreach and Coordination Resource Agency Management Resource Agency Regional Briefings and Rural Counties AB 1282 Work Monthly Transportation Master Process Task Force Group Coordination Agency Meetings Agreement Meetings Development Regional Bay Area Regional Santa Cruz County Conservation Presentations at Transportation Advance Advance Conferences Partners and Investment Mitigation Mitigation Strategy Program and Partner Stakeholders Planning MOU and and Regional Meetings Outreach Survey Coordination Coordination Strategies  64 Total In-person Attendees Guidelines Workshops  82 Total Online Attendees  Entities and Agencies Represented: January 14, 2019 – Sacramento  Transportation Agencies  Mitigation Bankers January 16, 2019 – Los Angeles  Consultants  Resource Agency Partners  Land Trusts  Non-profit Entities  Utility Representatives  Universities

Program Guidelines Milestones ► Publish Draft Formal Guidelines November 2018 ► Begin 30-day posting period ► Two public workshops January 2019 ► Publish Final Formal Guidelines February/March 2019 For Additional Information, please email: AdvanceMitigation@dot.ca.gov