(a) If the Department of Transportation is unable to meet the minimum requirements for landscaping and planting activities set forth in Part II within the rights-of-way of the construction project with which the landscaping and planting activities are associated, it must first complete the balance of those landscaping and planting activities within other:
(1) State-owned rights-of-way which are along the same road and geographically closest to the construction project requiring landscaping and planting activities and thereafter moving outward in all directions until it has met the minimum requirements for landscaping and planting activities set forth in this part; or
(2) Within conservation easements approved and maintained by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control that are within the same or an adjacent watershed.
(b) If, thereafter, the Department of Transportation remains unable to meet the minimum requirements for landscaping and planting activities set forth above within any rights-of-way it owns or controls in the State, it shall determine the number of acres of landscaping and planting activities it has been unable to mitigate and:
(1) Perform landscaping and planting activities in the State (or cause the same to be performed) at locations recommended by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service or the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; or
(2) If the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control are unable to identify any locations in the State for the performance of landscaping and planting activities, transfer to either the Department of Agriculture Forest Service or the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control an amount equal to the dollar value per square yard necessary to plant seedlings in the area it has been unable to mitigate to be used by either Department for conducting landscaping and planting activities in the State under programs administered by those Departments.
73 Del. Laws, c. 351, § 2; 77 Del. Laws, c. 361, § 4.
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