The original bill would have created a new Office of Highlands Stewardship and Highlands Working Group, which would have had the authority to approve and distribute land preservation grants for the region.
The new legislative language dispenses with those entities, limits land preservation efforts to the most appropriate areas within the region, removes the term “stewardship area” from the bill and cuts the annual funding authorization for land acquisition from $25 million to $10 million over the next decade.
To read the legislation, click here and enter H.R. 1964 in the box at the upper left.
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