Limit permanent conservation easements
What the document says“The new Administration should, to the extent authorized by law, limit the use of permanent easements”
A conservation easement restricts how land may be used. The chapter notes that easements signed with the department can be enforced in perpetuity, and asks that permanent ones be limited and that Congress prohibit the department from creating new ones.
What the document actually says“The new Administration should, to the extent authorized by law, limit the use of permanent easements”
Use fewer deals that last for ever. Do it as far as the law allows.
A farmer can sign a deal to protect land. Some of these last for ever. The book says that is too long.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The nearest candidate changes disaster repair cost share programs and says nothing about easements. The other four candidates are Congressional Review Act resolutions disapproving Energy Department appliance efficiency rules and a Comptroller of the Currency rule, matched only on the word conservation. Nothing indexed limits the department's use of permanent conservation easements or bars it from creating new ones. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.