Boulder City, along with every municipality and the county of Clark County, are joint permit holders of a Section 10 Take Permit under the Endangered Species Act as administered by the U.S. Division of Fish and Wildlife.
Section 10
One of the conditions of the Section 10 permit is that each permittee (meaning each city and the county) is required to collect a land disturbance mitigation fee for all newly disturbed land. The fee collected is $550 per acre.