Hawaii HB2204 establishes conservation banks to offset impacts on endangered species through habitat conservation plans.

Hawaii HB2204 amends state statutes to authorize the use of conservation banks for compensatory mitigation. This bill allows entities to establish sites for restoring, creating, enhancing, or protecting populations of threatened, endangered, candidate, or proposed species. The Department of Land and Natural Resources can approve these conservation banks to offset adverse impacts on species as part of habitat conservation plans.

Hawaii HB2204 establishes conservation banks to offset impacts on endangered species through habitat conservation plans.

Hawaii HB2204 amends state statutes to authorize the use of conservation banks for compensatory mitigation. This bill allows entities to establish sites for restoring, creating, enhancing, or protecting populations of threatened, endangered, candidate, or proposed species. The Department of Land and Natural Resources can approve these conservation banks to offset adverse impacts on species as part of habitat conservation plans.