Mitigation bank search, made easy.

Bank details, status and credit balances are mirrored from the USACE RIBITS registry, the federal public record for mitigation banks. Single-client banks are excluded from supply figures. What we call a “credit sale” is a credit withdrawal — the entry written in the federal credit ledger when credits are committed to a permit. At commercial banks a withdrawal generally represents a sale; at a single-client bank it offsets the sponsor’s own project. The figures count ledger transactions, not distinct purchases — one purchase may produce several withdrawals — and we count entries rather than credits moved, because credit classes are different units and cannot be added together. Each bar in a sales chart counts the credit sales recorded in that calendar year — withdrawals from the federal ledger, not quantities of credits. The final bar is the year in progress and is shown in a different color. No bars means no sales in those years.

RIBITS provides credit type and credit classification for each bank listing which we display verbatim. The topic labels and headings you see are ours — we group those names so you can more easily find what you need. For example, five banks selling the same kind of wetland credit may record their classification as “Palustrine Forested”, “PFO - Palustrine Forested”, “Forested Wetland”, “Forested Wetlands” or just “Forested”; we gather all five under one Forested label.

Eligibility and map come live from the EPA NEPAssist RIBITS MapServer and the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset each time you search. Your search runs in your browser and we don’t store anything about it. A service area is ranked primary, secondary or tertiary by the Corps, and we show that ranking the way RIBITS does: one list ordered by rank and then distance, with a labeled badge on the secondary and tertiary rows. Primary rows are unbadged — we mark the exception, not the norm. The rank does not settle eligibility for your project; the Corps and the sponsor do. The watershed a search resolves your point to comes from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset, which turns a HUC-8 code into the polygon most service areas are drawn around — a finer grain than the HUC-6 basins the analysis pages group by. Some banks have no service-area boundary in the EPA NEPAssist RIBITS MapServer, and no location search can return them. That is a gap in the mapping layer, not a statement about the bank: it may be approved, open, and able to sell exactly where you are. We list these separately rather than dropping them. The rates are not from RIBITS — the federal registry publishes no in-lieu fee price. Each one was transcribed by hand from the program’s own published fee schedule, which is linked beside it, and carries that schedule’s effective date. Schedules are updated when the program republishes, not on a set cycle, so a rate may be several years old and still be the current one. This is an administrative list price, set by the program sponsor as the regulated cost of meeting a permit obligation. It is not a market rate for a mitigation bank credit and should not be read as one. Comps are documented purchases, confirmed against the RIBITS ledger where the transaction can be matched.

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