[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7746]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 685. Mr. BROWNBACK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 146, to establish a battlefield acquisition 
grant program for the acquisition and protection of nationally 
significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War 
and the War of 1812, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie 
on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. FLINT HILLS CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, KANSAS.

       (a) In General.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting 
     through the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
     Service, shall offer to enter into such conservation 
     easements as the Secretary determines to be necessary to 
     protect the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie in eastern Kansas.
       (b) Willing Owners.--The Secretary shall offer to enter 
     into conservation easements under subsection (a) with any 
     willing owner of land or an interest in land located in a 
     biologically significant area of the Flint Hills tallgrass 
     prairie in eastern Kansas, as determined by the Secretary.
       (c) Treatment.--A conservation easement entered into under 
     this section shall be--
       (1) a perpetual easement; and
       (2) recorded on the deed of the relevant land or interest 
     in land.

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