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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.F-28 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project appropriate upland buffer, are preserved in perpetuity via recordation of a conservation easement, or similar deed restriction. The Wetland Mitigation and Monitoring Plan shall include the following details: • The location(s)of mitigation areas,including the types and extent of each habitat type to be created. • Mitigation for loss of existing wetlands shall at a minimum include the creation of equivalent acreage of wetland habitat present within the channel (as determined by the re- verified jurisdictional delineation). Mitigation wetlands shall replace the existing functions and services provided by the impacted channel. • All graded areas within the habitat restoration area shall be seeded with appropriate mixes of California native grass and forb species, developed by a qualified restoration ecologist. • The stated goal of the mitigation effort shall be to establish self-sustaining wetland vegetation that shall not require long-term irrigation or maintenance. • The mitigation site shall include the establishment of a vegetated upland buffer no less than 50 feet wide on both sides of the recreated channel, where practicable. • Provide grading details, location and quantities of all plant materials to be planted or seeded,native seed mixes to be used on all bare ground surfaces,monitoring procedures and schedules, identification of remedial measures, and performance criteria to be used by the agencies to assess success or failure of the mitigation effort. • Long-term monitoring over a minimum of five years shall be funded by the Project Sponsor, subject to approval by the regulatory agencies. • Annual monitoring reports shall be submitted to each permitting agency. • A wetland delineation and habitat map shall be prepared during the final year of monitoring and included in the final annual report. • Subject to review and modification by the regulatory agencies,specified success standards shall call for, at a minimum, 80% survival of any plantings and vegetation will be restored to the extent that it currently occurs as detailed in the most recent wetland delineation report, at the end of the monitoring period and after at least two consecutive years of no supplemental irrigation. Off-Site Wetland Mitigation In addition to the approximately 1.87 acres of wetlands to be created onsite, if required as a permit condition, additional mitigation credits may be purchased from a qualified wetland mitigation bank with a Service Area that covers the project site, or as otherwise approved in advance by the USACE and RWQCB. For example, the expanded Service Area of the Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank covers the project site. This mitigation bank sells Floodplain Mosaic Wetlands credits (404)credits that would appropriately mitigate impacts to wetlands. This, in combination of the onsite wetland mitigation, would provide opportunities (if needed)to