The Natomas Basin Conservancy A Ca Non-Profit Public Benefit Corp

Programs: The natomas basin conservancy is a california non-profit public benefit corporation formed in 1994. The conservancy is responsible for collecting mitigation fees required by the natomas basin habitat conservation plan (nbhcp), using these fees to acquire and preserve ecologically significant land in the natomas basin in order to create and maintain a sanctuary or preserve for 22 specified threatened or endangered wildlife and plant species. These sanctuaries or preserves are composed of marsh, wetlands, and agricultural habitat types necessary for the preservation and reproduction of the threatened or endangered species covered under the nbhcp. The conservancy achieves its purposes by acquiring land and conservation easements in the natomas basin area situated in northen sacramento county and southern sutter county, california. It acts as plan operator of the nbhcp. Along with the u. S. Fish and wildlife service, the california department of fish and wildlife, the county of sutter, and the city of sacramento, the conservancy is a "plan participant" in the nbhcp.

the sacramento area flood control agency (safca) is upgrading the levee system in the natomas basin. Safca refers to this project as the natomas levee improvement program (nlip). The nlip requires certain mitigation approvals by the u. S. Army corps of engineers, u. S. Fish & wildlife service and the california department of fish and wildlife, in accordance with the federal endangered species act and the california endangered species act. Safca committed to the federal and state agencies that it would mitigate for construction impacts, and do so in close accordance with the natomas basin habitat conservation plan (nbhcp). As plan operator of the nbhcp, the natomas basin conservancy (conservancy) manages safca's mitigation in a manner that advances the conservancy's primary mission, which is to implement the nbhcp. Safca has paid and is expected to continue to pay the conservancy for providing this mitigation function. However, it does so in a manner negotiated with the federal and state agencies, which is slightly different than the basis for which funds are paid to the conservancy for traditional nbhcp mitigation. The funds the conservancy receives for handling the safca mitigation are therefore booked and managed as adjunct to, but accounted for separately, than more traditional nbhcp mitigation.