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Program Elements

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The ultimate goal of the Partners’ effort is to improve the overall environmental health of the Tualatin River Basin. In order to do this, while also acknowledging the need to minimize potential Measure 37 claims, the TBNRCC approved a program that is built upon four primary components.

Collectively, the components provide for significant improvements to the environmental health of the Basin.

1. Revenue for capital improvements using Surface Water Management fees;
2. Existing regulations to protect the health of riparian corridors using the CWS vegetated corridor standards under Title 3 (Metro Functional Plan);
3. Administration of Goal 5 programming through continued coordination at the TBNRCC, which includes monitoring changes to natural resource conditions and directing program adjustments to achieve program goals; and
4. Voluntary activities, including requiring local Partners to make regulatory changes that facilitate habitat sensitive development.