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AttaC~gnt G 44 Tax Parcel ID STATE OFNORTHCAROLINA COUNTY OF ORANGE CONSERVATION EASENICN"r i ~~; THIS CONSERVATION EASEMENT' ("Conservation Easement") is made on this ~Y of '' 1 by and between ORANGE COUNTY, a local government, with an address at ("Grantor's and the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, with its address coo State Property Office, 1321 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 276991321 ("State" or "Grantee"), acting solely through the. North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund, with its address at 2313-B Executive Pazk Circle, Greenville, NC 27834 C`~d'~• RECITALS & CONSERVATION PURPOSES A. Grantor is the sole owner in fee simple of the property -being approximately 63 acres in Orange County, State of North Carolina and being all of that certain tract as more particularly described in Exhibit A attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein ("Property"); and B. The State. of North Carolina will be the Grantee and holder of this Conservation easement; and; C. Fund is authorized by Article 13A, Chapter 113 of the General Statutes of North Carolina ("N.C.G.S.'~ to finance projects and to acquire land and interests in land, including conservation easements for riparian buffers far the purposes of providing environmental protection for surface waters and urban drinking water supplies and establishing a network of riparian greenways far environmental, educational, and recreational uses; and D. Grantor has received a grant from the Fund for acquisition of the Property in consideration of which Grantor has agreed that. it will be conserved and managed in a manner that will protect the quality of the waters of the Neuse River and otherwise promote the public purposes authorized by Article 13A, Chapter 113 ofthe N.C.G.S; and, E. The parties hereto recognize the conservation and water quality values of the Property in its present state as a riparian shoreline and intend that said conservation values of the Property be preserved and maintained.