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Resources Inc. is a unique organization which can identify
exemplary land acquisition, stewardship and restoration projects
to meet a wide variety of regulatory and enforcement needs.
CRI staff has both technical expertise and extensive experience,
and maintain strong working relationships with the diverse
non-profit conservation community active here in New Jersey.
This allows us to match the requirements of regulatory and
enforcement matters with on-the-ground land acquisition, stewardship,
or restoration projects. As a non-profit organization itself,
CRI can efficiently and economically work with the conservation
community to identify projects that meet the often strict
geographic and technical requirements of these matters.
CRI
also provides expert technical assistance to the non-profit
sponsors of these projects at no costs to these organizations,
which helps to insure project completion in a timely manner.
There are several advantages to using the services of Conservation
Resources Inc. to identify projects for you (or your clients): |
Examples
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Our Geographic
Funds feature a large selection of pre-screened, on-the-ground,
pending conservation projects. If our current catalogue
does not already include a project which meets your needs,
you can contact us and we
will do our best to see if we can identify a project that
does.
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We maintain a strong working relationship with all
of the conservation groups active in New Jersey, and can
provide efficient, one-stop shopping for all of your project
needs, so that you can avoid having to contact literally
dozens of organizations in order to identify potential
projects.
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Our staff and consultants have extensive experience
with environmental laws and regulations, conservation
real estate transactions, natural resource management,
stewardship, and restoration, and we actively provide
assistance to the non-profit sponsors of funded projects
in order to help insure project completion. For more information
about our qualifications, click here.
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Under an executed Regulatory
Contribution Agreement, CRI will also execute a Grant
Agreement with the non-profit sponsor of the project,
and then oversee project completion and disburse settlement
funds in accordance with a specific Project and Payment
Schedule.
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As part of an executed Regulatory
Contribution Agreement, CRI will also assume responsibility
for identifying a replacement project acceptable to the
appropriate regulatory agency should the original project
prove to be infeasible for any reason. This means that
you can avoid having to revisit this matter in future
years should the funded project not be completed for any
reason.
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CRI charges no fee for this service unless a project
is successfully identified and approved by the appropriate
regulatory agency. Upon approval of a project and execution
of a Regulatory Contribution Agreement, the regulatory
contributor is charged a modest one-time fee of 1.5 %
of the project cost, and a per project fee of $5,000
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There
are many instances where the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) either requires or allows companies or individuals to
resolve regulatory matters by financing conservation projects.
These funding agreements can be reached in the context of
an alternative dispute resolution with the DEP Office of Dispute
Resolution, a Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) agreement
with DEP or EPA, a Natural
Resource Damage Claims settlement with DEP, satisfaction
of the conditions of CAFRA or other DEP permits, or federal
or state penalty settlements.
Most of the time, conservation projects that are required
in association with regulatory or enforcement matters have
particular geographic or technical requirements. For example,
a project may need to be within a specified distance of a
facility or a particular watershed, possess a minimum recharge
rate, or contain a certain amount of wetlands or other natural
features. Conservation Resources Inc. is set up to identify
specific projects which satisfy all relevant regulatory requirements.
Please contact us for more information
on CRI's services relating to identifying and overseeing projects
to satisfy regulatory matters.
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