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Total Anticipated Take. ‌ 18.3.1 Conservation Strategy‌ The 2020 DSL CCAA’s Conservation Strategy will contribute to the conservation of the DSL by reducing or eliminating threats on Enrolled Property and result in a net conservation benefit to the DSL and its habitat. First, the 2020 DSL CCAA generally requires and incentivizes avoidance of High and Intermediate Suitability Habitat for all Covered Activities with certain exceptions. All New Surface Disturbances will be fully mitigated through the Conservation Action program. Second, habitat degradation and fragmentation, which can be among the principal threats to the DSL in Texas, are reduced by the 2020 DSL CCAA. For example, the 2020 DSL CCAA places an emphasis on avoidance of development in high quality habitat and focuses oil and gas development in areas of degraded habitat (e.g., greater than 13 xxxxx pads/mi2). This emphasis will reduce the creation of new areas of high-density xxxxx and, thus, minimize habitat degradation and fragmentation. Third, encouraging avoidance of areas of well densities greater than four and less than 13 well pads/mi2 also should minimize development in areas with the potential to become degraded habitat. Fourth, the CCAA includes a Conservation Strategy calling for well pad removal and reclamation that will reduce well densities in marginal areas of degradation. Moreover, the 2020 DSL CCAA emphasizes the use of Conservation Easements and other protections to create contiguous areas of protected High and Intermediate Suitability DSL Habitat, again reducing the areas of high density and fragmentation of DSL Habitat. Additionally, the 2020 DSL CCAA will fund research to better understand the impacts of well density and roads and to determine whether shinnery oak can be established or reestablished in DSL Habitat. Finally, the Administrator may consider implementing a credit system for the acres of DSL Habitat that may be disturbed by sand mining operations under the 16,560 acre disturbance cap. Under such a system a sand mining Participant would be permitted to sell credits for conservation acres of like DSL Habitat in an Enrolled Property to another enrolled sand mining Participant. Among other things, such a credit system would incentivize enrollment by sand mining operators and provide opportunities for DSL Habitat offsets, including in High Priority Areas. Overall, there are substantial net conservation benefits to the DSL to be achieved through the sand mining industry’s participation in volu...