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~~ <br />DRAFT 12-5-06 <br />STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA <br />ORA1vGE COUNTY <br />Prepared by: Triangle Land Conservancy <br />c/o Jeff Masten <br />1101 Haynes Street, Suite 205 <br />Raleigh, NC 27604 <br />CONSERVATION EASEMENT <br />THIS CONSERVATION EASEMENT DEED, made this day of <br />2007, by ORANGE COUNTY, a body politic and corporate, a political <br />subdivision of the State of North Carolina, with a mailing address of P.O. Box 8181, <br />Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278, ("Grantor"), to THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, <br />("Grantee"), whose mailing address is State of North Carolina, Department of Administration, <br />State Property Office, 1321 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1321. The designations <br />Grantor and Grantee as used.herein shall include said parties, their heirs, successors, and assigns, <br />and shall include singular, plural, masculine, feminine, or neuter as required by context: <br />WITNESSETH: <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-214.8 et seq., the State <br />of North, Carolina has established the Ecosystem Enhancement Program (formerly known as the <br />Wetlands Restoration Program) within the Department of Environment and Natural Resources <br />for the purposes of acquiring, maintaining, restoring, enhancing, creating and preserving wetland <br />and riparian resources that contribute to the protection and improvement of water quality, flood <br />prevention, fisheries, aquatic habitat, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities; and <br />WHEREAS, The State of North Carolina is qualified to be the Grantee of a Conservation <br />Easement pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 121-35; and <br />WHEREAS, the Ecosystem Enhancement Program in the Department of Environment <br />and Natural Resources has approved acceptance of this instrument; and <br />WHEREAS, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the North.Carolina <br />Department of Transportation and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington <br />District entered into a Memorandum of Agreement, (MOA) duly executed by all parties in <br />Greensboro, NC on July 22, 2003. This MOA recognizes that the Ecosystem Enhancement <br />