- Impacts
- An environmental impact is defined as any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, resulting from a facility's activities, products, or services. In other words it is the effect that people's actions have on the environment.
- Fill
- Fill material means any material used for the primary purpose of replacing an aquatic area with dry land or changing the bottom elevation of a water body.
- Dredge
- Dredge is material that is excavated or dredged from waters of the United States.
- NEPA
- National Environmental Policy Act. More complex regulatory levels of federal permits.
- Mitigation Banking
- A mitigation bank is a site where wetlands and/ or other aquatic resources are restored, created, enhanced, or in exceptional circumstances, preserved expressly for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation in advance of authorized impacts to similar resources.
- GIS (techniques)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a technological field that incorporates geographical features with tabular data in order to map, analyze, and assess real-world problems.
- NRCS
- National Resources Conservation Service
- Credit (1 credit = 1 acre)
- ODOT qualifications
- Ohio Department of Transportation
