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Award Identifying Number: NEST Agreement Number: Agricultural Land Easement requirements of Section VIII and Exhibit 7 of this Cooperative Agreement. c. The ENTITY will be listed as the client and NRCS will be listed as a user in the appraisal report. Under no circumstances will the ENTITY allow the landowner to approve or disapprove of the appraiser selected to prepare the appraisal report. The landowner cannot be listed as the client. d. The ENTITY must provide NRCS a completed appraisal report at least 90 days before the intended closing of the Agricultural Land Easement. NRCS will conduct a technical review of the appraisal. The ENTITY will ensure that the Agricultural Land Easement is not closed until the technical reviewer approves the appraisal report. If the Agricultural Land Easement is closed prior to the approval of the appraisal by the technical reviewer then NRCS may not provide the Federal Contribution for the Agricultural Land Easement. 11. The ENTITY shall not use ACEP funds to place an easement on a property in which the ENTITY's employee or board member, with decision - making involvement in matters related to easement acquisition and management, has a property interest. The ENTITY shall not use ACEP funds to place an easement on a property in which a person who is an immediate family member or household member of an employee or board member, with decision - making involvement in matters related to easement acquisition and management, has a property interest. Further, the ENTITY agrees to generally conduct itself in a manner so as to protect the integrity of Agricultural Land Easements which it holds as well as avoid the appearance of impropriety or actual conflicts of interests in its acquisition and management of Agricultural Land Easements. 12. The ENTITY agrees that it will not at any time, n the ENTITY is named as a Grantee on the Agricultural Land Easement, seek to acquire the remaining fee interest in the Protected Property. Likewise, if the ENTITY enters into an agreement with another entity to manage or monitor the Agricultural Land Easement, and that entity seeks to acquire the underlying fee, the ENTITY agrees to immediately terminate such a relationship and arrange for an uninterested party to manage or monitor the Agricultural Land Easement. 13. The ENTITY may add substitute Parcels to the Cooperative Agreement during fiscal year 2014 if NRCS determines the Parcel ranks highly enough and is eligible for funding. Substitute Parcels are those that are eligible for funding and which have not been ranked high enough by NRCS to warrant funding at the current fund allocation levels. Substitute Parcels will be listed on Attachment A and not marked as funded. If a currently funded Parcel is removed from the Cooperative Agreement, funds obligated to the removed Parcel may be used to assist with the purchase of an Agricultural Land Easement on the next highest ranked substitute Parcel. No Parcels can be added to Attachment A to this agreement after September 30, 2014, and no new attachments can be added to this agreement after September 0. 2014. a. Landowners associated with FY 2014 substitute Parcels must meet HEL /WC eligibility for FY 2014. b. Entities offering a substitute Parcel must submit a Parcel Sheet (MRCS- CPA -41A) for each substitute Parcel, in addition to the Entity Application (MRCS- CPA -41) and Parcel Sheet for submitted for each funded Parcel; c. Parcels listed on Attachment A as substitute Parcels must meet land eligibility criteria; except that they do not require a pending offer when they are added to Attachment A as a 11 NRCS Representative Initial Recipient Representative Initial Attachment number 1 F -7 Page 166