Please stop this effort. National Security Risk: Allowing the rights to "natural assets" such as land, water, and even air to, essentially, be sold to the highest bidder--a "corporation" (which could well represent an adversary, including foreign, or other entity with dubious intentions)--is akin to handing over our sovereignty and our right to breath air, drink water, and use/own the land and its assets. Not For Sale: While on the surface "conservation, restoration, or sustainable management" sound like good things, taking that responsibility away from the citizens of our country ("the people") and handing it over to corporations is nothing short of thievery. No corporation (foreign or domestic, honorable or not) should have authority over our "natural assets," public or private. Subject to Fraud: Ecological performance of "natural assets" is overly subjective (after all, who determines how much the air we breath is worth? a qualified and worthy entity, or an entity who seeks to gain financially or who pursues a particular agenda?), tied to certain environmental agendas (rather than what is truly best for the environment), and is thus subject to fraud and misuse. Monetization of "natural assets"?! The fact that the NACs could, among other things, "sell" carbon credits (which this document (rule change) states outright) demonstrates that this has nothing to do with "conservation, restoration, or sustainable management" but instead has to do at least in part (if not wholly) with allowing entities to "buy" credits while they continue to pollute the air and water and decimate the land.