Note: The required contents of the LCP are stated here in simplified language. For the exact text, download the Stipulation Resolving Issues Regarding the Land Conservation Commitment.
(1) The LCP must provide an inventory of [assessors'] parcels, their acreage within and outside the boundaries of FERC projects, and existing economic uses.
(2) The Plan must specify the beneficial public values of individual parcels are and how they are to be preserved. The Land Conservation Commitment specifies that existing economic uses must be honored.
(3) The Plan must recommend a disposition of each parcel: whether PG&E retains the parcel, subject to a conservation easement, or donates the parcel to a public agency or non-profit organization, subject to a conservation easement.
Comment: The watershed lands are divided into about 1000 assessors' parcels. The Steardship Council is likely to combine these parcels into "parcel clusters" in order to satisfy the requirements for (2) and (3).
(4) The LCP must prove that the recipient of donated land or an easement can satisfy the future financial and other responsibilities associated with the parcel, in order to preserve and/or enhance the beneficial public values of the resource.
(5) The LCP must analyze the tax and other economic and physical impacts of the disposition and provide a mechanism to ensure each parcel decision remains "tax neutral" for the affected county.
(6) The LCP must disclose any hazardous waste problems or substance contamination on the watershed lands.
(7) If part of a parcel is useful for hydropower operations and must be retained by PG&E, the LCP may decide to split a parcel, provided the unused portion be enhanced by such a split.
(8) The LCP must propose a program for enhancing the beneficial public values of the watershed lands. This program must be consistent with the Land Conservation Commitment.
(9) The LCP must provide for monitoring the effects of its implementation.
(10) The LCP must contain an implementation schedule.
