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$225 Million Environmental Protection Fund Approved
  
New York State has approved an historic two year, $100 million dollar increase in annual dedicated funding that protects New York's land, air and water. 

     
This 103-acre farm was protected in 2001 by CLC through the NYS Farmland Protection Program, funded by the Environmental Protection Fund.

Established in 1993, the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) provides critical funds to municipalities and nonprofit conservation organizations to protect New York’s land, air and water. From 1998 to 2005, the EPF, which is funded by the dedicated Real Estate Transfer Revenue, was approved for $125 million.  It was increased by $25 million in 2005, and additional $75 million has been approved for the FY 2006-2007 New York State Budget.
 
The EPF programs include the Farmland Protection Program (increased from $16 million to $23 million), open space acquisition and improvement projects, neighborhood parks program (increased from $14 million to $20 million), recycling programs, and other programs designed to ensure that our children live in healthy communities.
 
Please join us in saying Thank You

We encourage you to write, call and email to express thanks to the Governor George Pataki, Senator Joseph Bruno (Senate Majority Leader), Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (Speaker), and your own Senators and Assembly representatives for their approval of the $225 million EPF.  Special thanks should be sent to Senator Carl Marcellino and Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli (chairmen of the Environmental Conservation committees).  Click on the below links for addresses:

   

Columbia Land Conservancy · P.O. Box 299 · 49 Main Street · Chatham, NY 12037 · (518) 392-5252