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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 26,1988-A35
Conference Committee Agrees On Farmland Bill
legislation aimed at preserving the
Commonwealth’s dwindling
inventory of prime agricultural
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The measure, (H.B. 442) spon
sored by Morris, was orginaUy
approved unanimously by the
House earlier this year. The
Senate later passed the bill, with
only one abstaining vote. Howev
er, since the House did not accept
Senate amendments to the bill, it
was placed before a House-Senate
conference committee tow ork out
a compromise.
The Senate conferees arc Wen
ger; Senators Edward Helfrick, R-
Columbia, Montour, Northumber
land, Snyder, Union and Patrick
Stapleton, D-Armstrong, Clarion,
Clearfield, Indiana, Jefferson. The
House conferees are Morris
(chairman); John Broujos, D-
Adams, Cumberland, York and
Samuel Hayes, R-Blair,
Huntingdon.
Approval of the conference
feport is expected shortly in both
the House and Senate.
The legislation provides for
purchase of agricultural easement
in agricultural security areas of
500 acres or more. The state
would allocate up to $lOO million
to fund the program, an expendi
ture approved by voter referen
dum in November 1987.
The measure calls for creation
of a State Agricultural Land Pre
servation Board within the
Department of Agriculture. Coun
ties also would be authorized to
set up their own boards to oversee
local land purchases.
To be eligible, a farm must be
part of an agricultural security
area. There are currently 67 such
areas in 28 Pennsylvania counties
comprising a total 257,800 acres.
The bill redefines provisions for
creating agricultural security areas
by requiring they be at least 500
acres, and may include two or
more noncontiguous parcels of
land. To be considered, lands must
be viable for agriculture, and
trends in agricultural economic
and technological conditions be
considered.
Also, local governing bodies
may limit minimum acreage
requirements for noncontiguous
areas providing the minimum is at
least ten acres. The measure
would also expand conditions for
input and modification to prop
osed security areas.
Under the bill, state funds
would be allocated annually to
counties, with half as grants and
half as matching funds, either on a
four-to-one, or eight-to-one ratio.
Under the House/Senate com
promise, greater attention was
given to satisfy concerns express
ed by counties, Sen. Wenger said.
“The primary concern of the con
ferees was to make sure the flow
of available funds is constant.”
Particularly, he said, once applica
tions come from the county to the
state board, the application will be
automatically approved if the state
board docs not act within 60 days
of receipt.
Rep. Morris emphasized that
counties, rather than the state, will
have the major decision-making
powers under the program. “Each
county’s agriucltural land preser
vation beard and commissioners
are closer to the individuals
involved and better able to address
their needs than is the state.
“We cannot forcast what the
state demand will be for the funds
authorized by this legislation,”
Morris noted. “What we do know
is that there are tremendous deve
lopment pressures being exerted
in Chester and Lancaster Coun
ties, and at the very least, the value
of this legislation will be proved
there.”