| | | Preamble. The Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 23 | | requires that real estate held by the State for conservation | | purposes may not be reduced or its uses substantially altered | | except on the vote of 2/3 of all members elected to each House. |
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| | | Sec. 1. Authority to convey easement. Resolved: That, under the Maine | | Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 6209, subsection 6 and Title | | 12, section 598-A, the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands | | within the Department of Conservation is authorized to convey for | | fair market value as determined by an independent appraiser to | | Irving Woodlands, LLC, a permanent easement in the Town of Van | | Buren to cross an abandoned railroad right-of-way acquired by the | | bureau with funds from the Land for Maine's Future Fund and | | managed as a public, multiple-use trail. |
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| | | This easement will give Irving Woodlands, LLC, a permanent | | right to cross the state-owned, abandoned railroad right-of-way | | running between Stockholm and Van Buren. Irving Woodlands, LLC, | | has assembled a new access corridor from their lands in T17R3 | | WELS to the Bangor and Aroostook railroad siding in Van Buren | | that will avoid making an impact on public roads and increase | | activity at the siding. The state-owned abandoned railroad | | corridor must be crossed at a site approximately one mile from | | Van Buren in order to complete this access corridor. |
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