Hawaii SB2005 authorizes the use of conservation banks to offset adverse impacts on threatened, endangered, candidate, or proposed species.

Hawaii SB2005 amends state statutes to authorize the use of conservation banks as compensatory mitigation projects for incidental take licensees. These banks provide long-term, landscape-scale protection for Hawaii's threatened, endangered, candidate, and proposed species. The bill outlines the requirements for habitat conservation plans, safe harbor agreements, conservation banks, and incidental take licenses. It also establishes the endangered species recovery committee to review and recommend on these plans and agreements.

Hawaii SB2005 authorizes the use of conservation banks to offset adverse impacts on threatened, endangered, candidate, or proposed species.

Hawaii SB2005 amends state statutes to authorize the use of conservation banks as compensatory mitigation projects for incidental take licensees. These banks provide long-term, landscape-scale protection for Hawaii's threatened, endangered, candidate, and proposed species. The bill outlines the requirements for habitat conservation plans, safe harbor agreements, conservation banks, and incidental take licenses. It also establishes the endangered species recovery committee to review and recommend on these plans and agreements.