RIM reserve program. A district board may limit the enrollment of eligible land with crop history adjacent to a restorable drained wetland to less than the maximum allowable four acres for each acre of restored wetland. However, any lands enrolled under another federal or state government program may become eligible for the RIM reserve program if they are released prior to conveyance of the conservation easement. If the eligible land is a replacement wetland, the land is not eligible for enrollment into the RIM reserve program until one year after completion of the replacement. In addition, the applicant must be the same landowner who drained or filled the wetland that was subject to the Wetland Conservation Act and which was subsequently replaced on the applicant's property following a replacement plan that was approved by the responsible local unit of government.
Permanent wetlands preserve program.
However, any lands enrolled under another federal or state government program may become eligible for the permanent wetland preserves program if they are released prior to conveyance of the conservation easement. A district board may limit the enrollment of upland adjacent to an eligible wetland to less than the maximum allowable four acres of adjacent upland for each acre of eligible wetland. A district board may waive the minimum acreage requirement for a landowner whose enrollment in the permanent wetlands preserve program of a portion of the eligible wetland is dependent upon the collective enrollment of additional adjacent owners of the eligible wetland.