Early Enrollment Program Clause Samples

Early Enrollment Program. Under the Early Enrollment Program, the Implementing Entity will broker agreements with willing landowners to place a temporary easement to encumber properties needed for the SSHCP Preserve System. The Implementing Entity will pay landowners for the easement or fee-title acquisition at a future date as development fees are available. The process for evaluating properties for easements or future fee-title acquisition is described in Section 9.4.3. Early enrollment properties will be prioritized based first on the Implementing Entity’s need for the property at the time (e.g., contains land cover types or modeled species habitat that is in short supply, is needed to create a linkage between other Preserve parcels), and second on the order in which the property was enrolled in the program. The temporary easements will become permanent easements when the property is added to the SSHCP Preserve System. The use of temporary easements to protect properties provides the landowner with assurances that, should the property not be needed by the SSHCP, the easement can be extinguished. The Plan Permittees anticipate that all properties enrolled in the Early Enrollment Program will become part of the Preserve System and will consist of permanent easements. Early enrollment properties can be used by the Implementing Entity to satisfy the stay- ahead provision (Section 9.4.6). Properties that are brought into the Early Enrollment Program will continue to be managed by the landowner to maintain the habitat value of the property. The Implementing Entity will take responsibility for managing and monitoring these lands once the property is placed under a permanent conservation easement. Basic components of the Early Enrollment Program are as follows: