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F. The local government unit ( "LGU") charged under WCA with approval of the subject <br />• wetland bank plan ("bank plan ") is Rice Creek Watershed District. The subject bank plan includes all <br />fully executed forms provided by the State, all supporting maps, engineering plans, drawings, <br />monitoring plan, vegetation establishment plan and management plan and facilities maintenance plan. <br />A complete copy of the bank plan is on file at the LGU. The address of the LGU is: 3585 Lexington <br />Avenue North, Suite 330, Arden Hills, MN 55126- 8056.The State is responsible for the acceptance of <br />this Easement. <br />G. The bank plan requires the restoration or creation of a wetland on the portion of the Real <br />Property designated in Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof ("Bank Area"). The bank plan <br />may also require the establishment of upland buffer within the Bank Area. This Easement pertains to <br />both wetlands and uplands within the Bank Area." <br />H. The Bank Area is subject to WCA, WCA Rules and all other provisions of law that <br />apply to wetlands, except that the exemptions in Minn. Stat. §103G.2241 and Minn. R. 8420.0122 do <br />not apply to the Bank Area, pursuant to Minn. Stat. §103G.222, subd. 1(h) and Minn. R. 8420.0115. <br />L All references in this Easement to Minnesota Statutes and to Minnesota Rules are to the <br />statutes and rules currently in effect and as amended or renumbered in the future. <br />J. The purposes of this Easement are to maintain and improve the ecological values of the <br />Bank Area through the means identified in the bank plan and to preserve the Bank Area in. a natural <br />• condition in perpetuity. <br />• <br />IN ADDmON, THE GRANTORS, FOR THEMSELVES, THEIR HEIRS, SUCCESSORSAND <br />ASSIGNS COVENANT THAT THEY: <br />1. Shall establish and maintain wetlands and upland buffers within the Bank Area as <br />specified in the bank plan approved by the LGU and on file at the offices of the LGU. The wetland <br />and any upland buffer area qhall be the size and type specified in the bank plan Grantor shall not make <br />any use of the Bank Area that would adversely affect any of the functions or values of the area. Those <br />functions and values are identified in Minn. R. 8420.0540, subp. 10, or specified in the approved bank <br />plan. <br />2. Shall pay the costs of establishment, maintenance, repairs and reconstruction of the <br />wetlands and upland buffers within the Bank Area, which the LGU or the State may deem necessary to <br />comply with the specifications for the Bank Area in the approved bank plan. The Grantor's obligations <br />under this paragraph include the payment of any lawful taxes or assessments on the Real Property. <br />3. Shall establish and maintain visible monuments such as signs, numbered fence posts or <br />survey posts at prominent locations along the boundary of the Bank Area in accordance with the <br />approved bank plan. If numbered fence posts are used, Grantor's Bank Plan must contain a survey or <br />scaled drawing of the property that corresponds to the fence post numbering. Posts must be at least 4 <br />feet high and.notably visible on the landscape. If signs are used, such signs must be have a surface area <br />of at least one quarter (Y4) square feet, mounted on a fence post at least 4 feet above ground, and <br />BWSR Form: wca bank 06 (easement).doc <br />Revised 2/12/03 <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />