In cases like these, it makes sense to write your own criteria, to make sure that your goals will definitely be met. Read the fine print before you sign your permit, regardless of whether you've developed your own mitigation and monitoring plan. Often people are so overjoyed to get their permit that they forget to check the details, particularly with regard to monitoring requirements buried in the permit conditions. Later they are dismayed to learn about a very costly long-term commitment, which they have not budgeted for. The bottom line is that wetland mitigation is designed to recreate the functions and values lost when the original wetland area was lost.
Monitoring makes sure that wetland goals are met.
Neither of these can be cookie-cutter approaches, as each wetland mitigation poses unique challenges and opportunities. Neither can they be achieved with vague, qualitative descriptors.