[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR623.7]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 623--EMERGENCY WETLANDS RESERVE PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 623.7  Terms of the easement.

    Landowners will grant to NRCS an easement which shall run with the 
land and be in favor of NRCS and its assigns or delegates. The easement 
shall require the land to be monitored as specified by the WRPO to 
promote the purposes of this part, including but not limited to 
maintenance of the restored wetland for entire length of the easement. 
Such easement shall: (a) be a permanent reserve interest easement; (b) 
require that the maintenance of the land be in accordance with the terms 
of the easement and with the terms of the WRPO and shall be the 
responsibility of the owners of the property and their successors of any 
kind, including, but not limited to, the owners' heirs and assigns; (c) 
grant to NRCS a right of access in favor of NRCS and its delegates, 
assigns and successors of any kind, to the portion of the property which 
is subject to the provisions of the easement. Maintenance of such access 
shall be the responsibility of the owner and their successors of any 
kind; (d) reserve to NRCS the right to permit such compatible uses of 
the easement area as may be identified in the WRPO; (e) reserve to the 
landowner those compatible uses identified in the WRPO that are 
permitted to be pursued by the landowner; (f) be signed by each person 
with an interest of any kind in the land covered by the easement; (g) 
permanently prohibit use of the easement area for cropland, except to 
harvest an agricultural commodity planted before the easement is 
perfected; and (h) require permanent maintenance of the wetland 
conditions, except in the case of natural disaster.