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Conservation Bank Easement Amendments

Our Position: oppose
Bill Number: H.3008
Sponsor: Rep Mike Pitts
Legislative Session: 09/10

Conservation Easements.H. 3008 Rep. M. A. Pitts: A bill to amend § 48‑59‑100, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to public access requirements for conservation easements acquired in whole or in part with revenues of the South Carolina Conservation Bank Trust Fund, so as to provide that trust funds and any other public funds of this state and any political subdivision of this state may not be used to acquire a conservation easement or other interest in riverbank property unless the conservation easement or other property interest by its terms specifically continues to allow public access for fishing and hunting and other traditional uses associated with fishing and hunting and to require an applicant applying for South Carolina Conservation Bank Trust Fund revenues for an easement or other interest in riverbank property to specify the applicant's efforts to identify these uses made before the property becomes subject to a conversation easement or other ownership interest transfer. Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs.

Status

There will be a meeting of the Wildlife Subcommittee Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 410 of the Blatt Building. The following matters are on the agenda:  H.3008

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/cgi-bin/query.exe?first=DOC&querytext=3008&category=Legislation&session=118&conid=4381459&result_pos=0&keyval=1183008

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