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SF 1837 Senate Long Description

Requiring the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) to establish a pilot program in a certain number of counties to provide education and financial incentives encouraging private landowners to preserve and restore lake and river shoreland; requiring the board to create a grant program, requiring affected soil and water conservation districts in each pilot county to establish a working group to work with the county board and soil and water conservation district to develop criteria for awarding grants to shoreland owners; providing for district award of cost share grants for shoreland restoration or establishment of conservation easements for preservation of existing shorelands; specifying certain coordination, cooperation and evaluation requirements and requiring a board report to the legislature by a certain date (ra)