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SF 1257 Senate Long Description

E Requiring the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) to establish a grant program to provide education and financial incentives to encourage private landowners to preserve and restore lake and river shoreland; requiring local soil and water conservation districts to establish working groups to develop along with the district and county board criteria for awarding the grants; providing for district award of cost share grants for shoreland restoration or to establish conservation easements for shoreland preservation, specifying certain restoration, easement and coordination and cooperation requirements; requiring local districts to evaluate program success and the board to report on the program to the legislature by a certain date (ra, ja)