Mitigation banking has been highlighted in a new order issued by the Secretary of the Department of Interior.  Secretary Jewell signed her first Secretarial Order on October 31, 2013, calling for the establishment of a Department of Interior mitigation strategy for developments occurring on DOI managed lands.  Order No. 3330 (“Order”) directs the previously established DOI Energy and Climate Change Task Force (“Task Force”) to develop a coordinated strategy on mitigation practices to “effectively offset impacts of large development projects of all types through the use of landscape-level planning, mitigation banking, in-lieu fee arrangements, or other possible measures.”