(1)__Land in which fee ownership has been acquired by the municipal government, State Government or Federal Government in order to protect the important ecological, recreational, scenic, cultural or historic attributes of that property; or

(2)__Land that has been protected through fee ownership or conservation easement with funding from the Land for Maine's Future Fund.

The Executive Department, State Planning Office shall maintain a list of conserved lands.__The commissioner shall request this information from the State Planning Office prior to any preapplication scoping session held;

G. Will not result in unreasonable impact from noise or light at the boundaries of the lease site; and

H. Upon the implementation of rules, the lease must be in compliance with visual impact criteria adopted by the commissioner relating to color, height, shape and mass.

The commissioner shall adopt rules to quantify permissible impact under paragraph G and to establish noise, light and visual impact criteria under paragraph paragraphs G and H, which are major substantive rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Sec. 6. 12 MRSA §6072, sub-§12, as repealed and replaced by PL 2003, c. 247, §8, is amended to read:

12. Renewal. The commissioner shall renew a lease if:

A. The commissioner receives, at least 90 days prior to the termination of a lease, an application for renewal that includes information on the type and amount of aquaculture to be conducted during the new lease term;

B. The lessee has complied with the lease agreement during the term of the lease;

C. The commissioner determines that renewal of the lease is in the best interest of the State;

D. The renewal will not cause the lessee to become a tenant of any kind in leases covering an aggregate of more than 250 500 acres; and