The instrument complies with federal rules governing compensatory mitigation that became effective in June 2008, and supersedes the 2003 Memorandum of Agreement among the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Resources and the N.C. Department of Transportation governing EEP operations, as well as a 1998 Memorandum of Understanding between NCDENR and USACE.
