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Award Identifying Number: NEST Agreement Number: 14. For an advance, evidence of liability insurance coverage in an amount at least equal to the purchase price of the Agricultural Land Easement, providing for reimbursement to NRCS for any loss of Federal funds caused by fraud or dishonest or failure by the attorneys, closing agents, or closing agents employees to comply with the written closing instructions. VIII. AGRICULTURAL LAND EASEMENT MINIMUM TERMS AND CONDITIONS A. The ENTITY shall ensure that Agricultural Land Easements acquired under this Cooperative Agreement meet the following minimum conditions to permit effective enforcement of the Agricultural Land Easement for protection of agricultural use and future viability, and related conservation values, of eligible land by limiting non - agricultural uses or for protection of grazing uses, and related conservation values by restoring and conserving eligible land: 1. Run with the land in perpetuity or for the maximum duration allowable under State law, where State law prohibits a permanent easement; 2. Protect the agricultural use and future viability, and related conservation values, of eligible land by limiting nonagricultural uses of that land or protect =, grazing uses and related conservation values by restoring and conserving eligible land; and 3. Provide for the administration, management, and enforcement of the Agricultural Land Easement by the ENTITY or its successors. B. The ENTITY shall ensure that the Minimum Terms For The Protection Of Agricultural Use Exhibit (Minimum Terms Exhibit), attached to this Cooperative Agreement as Exhibit 7, is attached to the Agricultural Land Easements acquired under this Cooperative Agreement or that the Agricultural Land Easements acquired under this Cooperative Agreement contain the terms as stated in the Minimum Terms Exhibit. The ENTITY is authorized to add its own terms and conditions to the Agricultural Land Easements so long as the ENTITY's additional language does not alter or defeat the intent, purpose or effective enforcement by the United States of the Minimum Terms, the ACEP, or the Agricultural Land Easements acquired under this Cooperative Agreement. C. The ENTITY will ensure that the Agricultural Land Easement deed is reviewed and approved for use by NRCS prior to the ENTITY requesting an advance of the Federal Contribution or closing on an Agricultural Land Easement for which the ENTITY will request the Federal Contribution. D. If the ENTITY elects to attach the Minimum Terms Exhibit to the Agricultural Land Easements acquired under this Cooperative Agreement, the ENTITY will ensure it is signed by the landowner, ENTITY, and NRCS and is attached to the Agricultural Land Easements acquired under this Cooperative Agreement at the time of closing and recordation and that the paragraph below is inserted at the bottom of the Agricultural Land Easement deed immediately before the signature pages: lk* The Agricultural Land Easement is acquired with funds provided, in part, by the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, (`ACEP') under Cooperative Agreement Number [ # #- # # # #- # # - # #] dated [Date of CA] between the [Cooperating Entity Name(s)] and the United States of America (the United States), acting by and through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). The EXHIBIT is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference and shall run with the land in perpetuity, or for the maximum duration allowed under applicable State laws. As required by 16 U.S.C. § 3865 et seq and 7 CFR 1491 et seq and as a condition of receiving ACEP funds, all present and future use of the Protected Property is and shall remain subject to the terms and conditions described forthwith in this Addendum entitled Minimum Terms For The NRCS Representative Initial Recipient Representative Initial on F -7 Attachment number 1 Page 161