From March 9-11, 2005, the Wetlands Scan Team conducted site visits to three mitigation banks established by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and managed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. These were the Anderson Tract [Tyler District, southeast of Mineola along the Neches River in Smith County], Blue Elbow Swamp [Beaumont District, just east of Orange in Orange County], and Coastal Bottomlands [Houston District, just southwest of Brazoria in Brazoria County]. Issues identified by TxDOT representatives regarding the existing mitigation banks relate to (1) their ability to draw on bank credits when the mitigation bank is a designated preservation project, (2) changes in mitigation requirements at the federal level due to the SWANCC ruling, and (3) justifying the initial costs for the bank acquisition relative to the long time period (possibly 20 years or more) over which TxDOT anticipates withdrawing credits from the banks.