(505 ILCS 75/4) (from Ch. 5, par. 1304)
Sec. 4.
The Inter-Agency Committee on Farmland Preservation shall prepare
policy statements and working agreements for each of the agencies named
in Section 3 of this Act
specifying the policy of that agency toward farmland preservation and the
administrative process used to implement that policy. The policy statements
and working agreements shall be prepared as rules for the administration
of the program. The policy statement
shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of the impact of agricultural
land conversions attributed to the agency's programs, regulations, procedures
and operations. The policy statement shall also detail measures that can
be implemented to mitigate conversions to the maximum extent practicable.
The State Agency policy statements and working agreements on farmland preservation
shall be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly and shall be
updated by the State agency, and reviewed and approved by the Department
of Agriculture, every 3 years. State agency policy statements and working
agreements prepared in response to Executive Order Number 4 on the Preservation
of Farmland and submitted to the Governor shall remain in effect upon this
Act becoming law.
(Source: P.A. 82-945.)
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