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■ Review state programs devoted to protecting open space to assure they are effectively coordinated and efficiently administered. • Create an entity to coordinate all state programs associated with protecting or preserving open space, including farmland. • Require long -range strategic plans for state entities that acquire and protect open space. ■ Coordinate the dissemination of information about activities of state programs and agencies that acquire or protect open space, including the issuance of a comprehensive annual report. Objective 1A.8: Support the Million Acre Initiative. ■ Fund a coordinator and support staff for the Million Acre Initiative. ■ Incorporate the Million Acre Initiative into existing state programs to acquire and protect open space. ■ Create a Million Acre Advisory Panel, with representatives appointed by the governor and General Assembly to include private interests and local government. B. STATE LAND (universities, colleges, prisons, government facilities, parks, historic sites, gamelands, etc.) Objective 1B.1: Lead by example ■ Survey existing resources and-significant natural features (unusual botanical communities, buffers along perennial streams, etc.). ■ Develop protection plans for significant natural features. ■ Prohibit construction of buildings, except wastewater treatment facilities, in identified floodways or in floodplains. ■ Minimize impervious surfaces, including transportation- related facilities, located within floodplains. ■ Respect floodplain, watershed, ridge, coastal, and other environmental regulations in siting state facilities and executing state.policies. Objective 1B.2: Support parks, natural areas, recreation areas, trails, historic sites, and other state -owned lands and state- protected waterways with adequate funding. ■ Strengthen and expand the state park system to preserve sites of statewide significance. ■ Update a long -range plan for acquisition and operations within the state park system. El