Mitigation under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act: where it comes from, what it means

Palmer Hough1, Morgan Robertson2
1Office of Water, Wetlands Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, USA
2Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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