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legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-159/section-2694b.md

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+title: "10 U.S.C. § 2694b"
+description: "Participation in wetland mitigation banks"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 10
+title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
+chapter_number: "159"
+chapter_name: "REAL PROPERTY; RELATED PERSONAL PROPERTY; AND LEASE OF NON-EXCESS PROPERTY"
+section: "2694b"
+citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2694b"
+status: "current"
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+release_date: "2026-06-26"
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+---
+
+# 10 U.S.C. § 2694b - Participation in wetland mitigation banks
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Authority to Participate.— The Secretary of a military department, and the Secretary of Defense with respect to matters concerning a Defense Agency, when engaged in an authorized activity that may or will result in the destruction of, or an adverse impact to, a wetland, may make payments to a wetland mitigation banking program or “in-lieu-fee” mitigation sponsor approved in accordance with the Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks (60 Fed. Reg. 58605; November 28, 1995) or the Federal Guidance on the Use of In-Lieu-Fee Arrangements for Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act (65 Fed. Reg. 66913; November 7, 2000), or any successor administrative guidance or regulation.
+
+(b) Alternative to Creation of Wetland.— Participation in a wetland mitigation banking program or consolidated user site under subsection (a) shall be in lieu of mitigating wetland impacts through the creation of a wetland on Federal property.
+
+(c) Treatment of Payments.— Payments made under subsection (a) to a wetland mitigation banking program or consolidated user site may be treated as eligible project costs for military construction.
+
+(Added Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title III, § 314(a)(1), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1430.)