Easement and 30-year contract participation requirements.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) (2) For the duration of its term, the easement will require, at a minimum, that the landowner and the landowner's heirs, successors, and assigns will cooperate in the restoration, protection, enhancement, maintenance, management, and monitoring of the land in accordance with the warranty easement deed and with the terms of the WRPO. In addition, the easement will grant to the United States: (i) A sufficient right of legal access to the easement area, (ii) The right to authorize compatible uses of the easement area, including but not limited to such activities as hunting and fishing, managed timber harvest, water management, or periodic haying or grazing, if such use is consistent with the long-term protection and enhancement of the wetland resources for which the easement was established, (iii) All rights, title, and interest in the easement area except those rights specifically reserved in the deed, and (iv) The right to restore, protect, enhance, maintain, manage, and monitor activities on the easement area. (3) The landowner will convey title to the easement in a manner that is acceptable to NRCS. The landowner will warrant that the easement granted to the United States is superior to the rights of all others, except for title exceptions deemed acceptable by NRCS. (4) The participant will— (i) Comply with the terms of the easement, (ii) Comply with all terms and conditions of any related contract or agreement, (iii) Agree to the permanent retirement of any existing cro

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 1468.37