Agricultural Preservation Program Clause Samples

The Agricultural Preservation Program clause establishes a framework for protecting and maintaining agricultural land for farming purposes. Typically, this clause outlines restrictions on land use, such as prohibiting non-agricultural development or requiring certain conservation practices to be followed by landowners. Its core function is to ensure that valuable farmland remains available for agricultural production, thereby preventing urban sprawl and supporting long-term food security.
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Agricultural Preservation Program. The United States Department of Agriculture’s 2002 Census of Agriculture found that from 1950 to 2002, Ohio lost one-third of its total agricultural lands. The State of Ohio has a clearly delineated conservation policy to preserve and promote agriculture and agricultural land for a significant public benefit. The Ohio Department of Agriculture (“ODA”) is charged with the responsibility of protecting and promoting agriculture, including the preservation of Ohio’s farmland by accepting agricultural easements in accordance with R.C. 901.21(B). By granting and accepting an agricultural easement over the Protected Property, the Grantor is furthering the State of Ohio’s conservation policy to preserve and protect viable agricultural land. The Grantor intends that this Easement will confine the use of the Protected Property, in perpetuity, to activities that are consistent with the Purpose of this Easement. Ohio’s policy to preserve and promote agriculture and agricultural land is further reflected in the enactment of R.C. 901.21 and 901.22 which allow, inter alia, the Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture to acquire agricultural easements by gift, devise or bequest, and to establish a procedure for awarding matching grants for the purchase of agricultural easements. These sections also provide that the Director shall monitor Ohio’s agricultural easement program to evaluate its effectiveness and efficiency as a farmland preservation tool. Additionally, this policy is reflected in R.C. 901.54, which creates the Office of Farmland Preservation within the ODA to actively preserve farmland and encourage and assist others in doing so. The grant of this agricultural easement is exclusively for the “conservation purpose” as that term is described in Section 170(h)(4)(A)(iii) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, which encourages the preservation of open space, including farmland and forest land.
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  • Historic Preservation Subrecipient agrees to comply with the Historic Preservation requirements set forth in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470) and the procedures set forth in 36 CFR 800, Protection of Historic Properties, insofar as they apply to the performance of this Contract. In general, this requires concurrence from the State Historic Preservation Officer for all rehabilitation and demolition of historic properties that are fifty years old or older or that are included on a Federal, State, or local historic property list.

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  • Cooperation on forestry matters and environmental protection 1. The aims of cooperation on forestry matters and environmental protection will be, but not limited to, as follows: (a) establishing bilateral cooperation relations in the forestry sector; (b) developing a training program and studies for sustainable management of forests; (c) improving the rehabilitation and sustainable management of forest with the aim of increasing carbon sinks and reduce the impact of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region; (d) cooperating on the execution of national projects, aimed at: improving the management of forest plantations for its transformation for industrial purposes and environmental protection; (e) elaborating studies on sustainable use of timber; (f) developing new technologies for the transformation and processing of timber and non-timber species; and (g) improving cooperation in agro-forestry technologies. 2. To achieve the objectives of the Article 149 (Objectives), the Parties may focus, as a means of cooperation and negotiations on concluding a bilateral agreement on forestry cooperation between the two Parties. Such collaboration will be as follows: (a) exchanges on science and technology as well as policies and laws relating the sustainable use of forest resources; (b) cooperation in training programs, internships, exchange of experts and projects advisory; (c) advice and technical assistance to public institutions and organizations of the Parties on sustainable use of forest resources and environmental protection; (d) facilitating forest policy dialogue and technical cooperation under the Network of Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Rehabilitation in Asia- Pacific Region, initiated at the 15th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meeting; (e) encouraging joint studies, working visits, exchange of experiences, among others; and (f) others activities mutually agreed.