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<br />NCLWF Property CE Template – rev. Oct 2023 <br />2 of 18 <br /> <br /> <br />B. Grantor is a North Carolina local government. Grantor’s Department of <br />Environment, Agriculture, Parks, and Recreation Department will help manage and maintain the <br />Property. <br /> <br />C. The State has enacted the Conservation and Historic Preservation Agreements Act <br />(the “Act”), Chapter 121, Article 4 of the North Carolina General Statutes (“N.C.G.S.”), which <br />provides for the enforceability of restrictions, easements, covenants, and conditions “appropriate <br />to retaining land or water areas predominantly in their natural, scenic or open condition . . . .” <br /> <br />D. The North Carolina Land and Water Fund a.k.a. North Carolina Clean Water <br />Management Trust Fund is authorized by N.C.G.S. Chapter 143B, Article 2, Part 41 to acquire <br />land and interests in land on behalf of the State: <br /> <br />• for riparian buffers for the purposes of providing environmental protection for surface <br />waters and urban drinking water supplies and establishing a network of riparian <br />greenways for environmental, educational, and recreational uses, <br /> <br />• for the purpose of protecting and conserving surface waters and enhancing drinking water <br />supplies, including the development of water supply reservoirs, <br /> <br />• to provide buffers around military bases to protect the military mission, <br /> <br />• that represent the ecological diversity of North Carolina, including natural features such <br />as riverine, montane, coastal, and geologic systems and other natural areas to ensure their <br />preservation and conservation for recreational, scientific, educational, cultural, and <br />aesthetic purposes, and <br /> <br />• that contribute to the development of a balanced State program of historic properties. <br /> <br />E. Grantor and Grantee have agreed that the entire Property shall be subject to this <br />Conservation Easement. As aforementioned, the Property is more particularly described in <br />Exhibit A. <br /> <br />The Property has the following conservation values and serves the following <br />conservation purposes: <br /> <br />• to preserve, enhance, restore, and maintain the natural features and resources of the <br />riparian buffer, to control runoff of sediment, and to improve and maintain the water <br />quality, of portions of Rocky Run and its tributaries and <br /> <br />• to protect and preserve the ecological diversity including natural features such as Natural <br />Heritage Program inventoried occurrence of the Seven Mile Creek Natural Area for <br />recreational, scientific, educational, cultural, and aesthetic purposes. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: F21173B5-89BA-402D-A035-40030539EB5E