Existing law creates the Sagebrush Ecosystem Council within the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Existing law requires the Council to establish a program to mitigate damage to sagebrush ecosystems by creating a system to award credits to certain persons and entities to protect, enhance or restore sagebrush ecosystems. (NRS 232.162) This bill requires the Council to establish the program by regulation. In establishing the program, this bill further requires the Council to: (1) develop a habitat quantification tool; and (2) set forth in regulation any method or formula used by the habitat quantification tool for calculating debits and credits.