An Act Authorizing Changes to the Ownership and Leases of Certain Public Lands
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1789
Committee Amendment CA_A_S416 (Senate)
Amends: 12 MRSA §1839, 12 MRSA §1853

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A " to S.P. 668, L.D. 1789, Bill, "An Act 
Authorizing Changes to the Ownership and Leases of Certain Public Lands" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 12 MR.SA §1839, sub-§1, 1E, as amended by PL 1999, c. 592, §4; PL 
2011, c. 657, Pt. W, §7; and PL 2013, c. 405, Pt. A, §24, is further amended to read: 
E. 
A description of the proposed budget, including allocations for the bureau's 
dedicated funds and any revenues of the bureau from permits, leases,. fees and sales, 
for the following fiscal year beginning on July 1st; ana 
Sec. 2. 12 MR.SA §1839, sub-§1, ~' as enacted by PL 1999, c. 592, §5, is 
amended to read: 
F. The status of ecological reserves including the acreage of nonreserved public land 
designated as ecological reserves, results of monitoring, scientific research and other 
activities related to ecological reserves,; and 
Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §1839, sub-§1, ,fG is enacted to read: 
G. The amount of funds in the public nonreserved lands acquisition fund within the 
bureau for each county. 
Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §1853, sub-§1, ,rH, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 289, §7, is 
amended to read: 
H. A breakdown of growth based on the most recent physical forest inventory and of 
harvest in each region of any public reserved lands units established by the bureau, 
identifying any harvesting that occurred during the preceding fiscal year in individual 
management units where harvest exceeds annual growth; ana 
Sec. 5. 12 MRSA §1853, sub-§1, ,rI, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 289, §8, is 
amended to read: 
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I. An update on capital plans for road construction and road maintenance, including a 
list and description of roads built and roads maintained in the preceding fiscal year 
and a list and description of roads to be built and roads to be maintained in the 
succeeding fiscal year-:; and 
Sec. 6. 12 MRSA §1853, sub-§1, ,rJ is enacted to read: 
J. The amount of funds in the Public Reserved Lands Acquisition Fund, established 
in section 1850, subsection 2, for each county. 
Sec. 7. Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized to amend lease 
at Long Falls Dam Road to allow lessee to sublease a portion of the parcel for 
recreational purposes. The Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the 
Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is authorized to amend the lease of 
the land consisting of public lots that form part of the dam and reservoir known as 
Flagstaff Lake, land that is currently leased by Brookfield Renewable Partners and that 
was previously leased pursuant to Private and Special Law 1927, chapter 113, section 13, 
to allow the lessee to sublease a portion of the parcel for the purpose of a parking area for 
the Maine Huts and Trails system. 
Sec. 8. 
Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain lands in Adamstown Township, Oxford County. 
The Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry may by quitclaim deed without covenant convey to a buyer for 
appraised fair market value and other compensation and on such other terms and 
conditions as the director may direct a certain parcel of land in Adamstown Township, 
described as Parcel 0008W as depicted on the Richardson Pond cottage lots plan 
developed by Seven Islands Land Company on the southwest side of West Richardson 
Pond, comprising approximately 3.54 acres and a camp, which was previously a camp lot 
lease and which was surrendered by the leaseholder to the Bureau of Parks and Lands by 
written agreement. The sale of the lot constitutes a revocation of its designation as public 
reserved lands under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 598-A. 
Sec. 9. Report on funds received pursuant to this Act. The Director of the 
Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and 
Forestry shall report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over agriculture, conservation and forestry matters the amount of funds received pursuant 
to the transactions authorized by this legislation by each county at the same time as the 
director submits the bureau's reports pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, 
sections 1839 and 1853. 
Sec. 10. Resolve 2013, c. 56, §4 is amended to read: 
Sec. 4. 
Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain lands in Adamstown Township, Oxford County. 
Resolved: That the Director of the Di11ision Bureau of Parks and l4rnlie Lands within 
the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may by quitclaim deed without 
covenant convey for an appraised fair market value that is the higher of 2 appraisals or 
the highest of more than 2 appraisals and on such other terms and conditions as the 
director may direct certain lots or parcels of land, with a total of approximately 24 26 
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acres, to the West R1ohardson Pond Publio Lot Assooiation individual camp lot lessees. 
The sale of each lot constitutes a revocation of its designation as public reserved lands 
under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 598-A. 
The parcels to be conveyed are located on a 24-acre lease lot subdivision portion and 
a 1.93-acre lease lot located on an island of the Richardson Lake public reserved lands. 
The 12 lots in the subdivision are on the southwestern shoreline of West Richardson Pond 
and extend from the Lincoln Plantation and Adamstown Township town line south to 
Route 16 and are also located between the Richardson Lake public reserved lands access 
road and the shoreline of West Richardson Pond. The parcels in the subdivision are 
currently leased to -1--G 2 camp lot lessees who are members of the West Richardson Pond 
Public Lot Association. To ensure that the State retains public access to West Richardson 
Pond, the director may not convey ownership of Lot 4-W in the subdivision as depicted 
on the Richardson Pond cottage lots plan developed by Seven Islands Land Company. 
The 1.93-acre lease lot is located on an island in West Richardson Pond, located in 
Adamstown Township, Oxford County, being a portion of the Richardson Lake public 
reserved lands, Account #178012003, Public Lands L1 LOC R, Map OX008, Plan 3, Lot 
3, Lease Number 1, Lot ID Loe R. 
Sec.11. Resolve 2015, c. 29, §1 is amended to read: 
Sec. 1. 
Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized, but not 
directed, to convey certain interests in lands in Aroostook County in 
exchange for other interests or properties. Resolved: That the Director of the 
Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and 
Forestry may by quitclaim deed without covenant, for negotiated value, and on such other 
terms and conditions as the director may direct, convey or release all interests held by the 
bureau in the following properties described under subsection 1 to Prentiss and Carlisle 
Company, Inc. and- Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company, McCrillis Timberland, 
LLC and Greentrees, Inc., collectively referred to in this section as 
11the partitioners,
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exchange for conveyance of property or interests in properties or other oonsideration of 
equivalent value described under subsection 2 from Prootiss and Carlisle Comoanv. Ino. 
anrl :Prsntiss anrl GarHsls Mana!>'smsnt Gomnanv the partitioners. 
1. 
The property interests to be conveyed by the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry, by and through the Bureau of Parks and Lands, to Prentiss 
and Carlisle Company, Ino. and to Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company on behalf 
of other minority interests the partitioners are all of the State's minority common and 
undivided interest in forested aores without flo=wage easements in T.10 R.4 SE/4, whioh is 
approximately 1,329 equivaloot aores a tract in T.10 R.4 WELS SE/4, Maine Revenue 
Services Tax Map AR018, Plan 01, Lot 1.2, comprising approximately 3,970 acres of 
upland and 270 acres of flowed land in Scopan Lake, depicted as Parcel B on the March 
28, 2017 Survey Plan by Plisga & Day Land Surveyors, the State's undivided interest 
being approximately equivalent to 1,222 acres. 
2. The property interests to be conveyed by Prootiss and Carlisle Company, Ino. and 
Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company on behalf of other minority interests the 
partitioners to the State acting by and through the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands are: 
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A. 
All of Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Ino.'s the partitioners' common and 
undivided interests in forested aores without flowage easements in T.10 R.4 SE/4 
north of Soopan Lake and all of the remaining minority oommon and undivided 
interests in forested aores without flov,rage easements in T.10 R.4 SE/4 north of 
Soopan Lab by and through Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company, ·whioh is 
to!!ether annroximatelv 16 eauivalent aore!'l: the following tracts in T.10 R.4 WELS: 
(1) 
SE/4 north of Scopan Lake, part of Maine Revenue Services Tax Map 
AR018, Plan 01, Lot 1.2, comprising approximately 23 acres of upland and 221 
acres of flowed land in Scopan Lake; 
(2) SE/4 setoff, part of Maine Revenue Services Tax Map AR018, Plan 01, Lot 
1.2, comprising approximately 605 acres of upland and 240 acres of flowed land 
in Scopan Lake, depicted as Parcel A on the March 28, 2017 Survey Plan by 
Plisga & Day Land Surveyors; 
(3) NE/4 west of Scopan Lake, Maine Revenue Services Tax Map AR018, Plan 
01, Lot 2.1, comprising approximately 995 acres, including portions flowed by 
Scopan Lake; and 
(4) NE/4 east of Scopan Lake, Maine Revenue Services Tax Map AR018, Plan 
01, Lot 2, comprising approximately 5,462 acres, including portions flowed by 
Scopan Lake. 
The partitioners' undivided interest in the T.10 R.4 WELS tracts described in this 
paragraph is approximately equivalent to 1,296 acres; and 
B. All of Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Ino.'s minority oommon and undivided 
interests in forested aores without flov,rage easements in T.10 R.4 NE/4 by and 
through Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company, whioh is approximately 309 
equivalent aores; 
C. All of the minority oommon and undivided interests in T.11 R.4 E/2 by and 
through Prentiss 
and Carlisle Management Company, 
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is together 
approximately 254 equivalent aores; and 
D. 1\Jl or a portion of Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Ino.'s internsts in T.13 R.5, 
T.13 R.13 and T.12 R.13, or other paroels or other oonsideration from Prentiss and 
Carlisle Company, Ino. as may be needed in oombination v1ith the foregoing to be of 
equivalent value, as determined by the direotor, to the oonveyanoe of the State to 
Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Ino. in T.10 R.4 SE/4 as desoribed in subseotion 1; 
ana-b~ it forth ~r 
E. Two parcels in T.13 R.5 WELS, Maine Revenue Services Tax Maps AR027, Plan 
01, Lot 1.1 and AR027, Plan 01, Lot 1.2, owned solely by Prentiss and Carlisle 
Company, Inc. and McCrillis Timberland, LLC and totaling approximately 192 acres; 
and be it further' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee and which replaces 
the bill, authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department 
of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to allow the lessee of land at Long Falls Dam 
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Road to sublease a portion of the parcel to the Maine Huts and Trails system for a parking 
area. The amendment amends Resolve 2013, chapter 56, authorizing the sale oflease lots 
in Richardson Lake public reserved lands to the individual lessees, to authorize the 
director to sell an additional parcel of public reserved lands on a small island in West 
Richardson Pond, provides a description of the parcel and corrects the number of lessees 
as described in chapter 56. The amendment amends Resolve 2015, chapter 29, which 
authorizes the director to partition and consolidate common and undivided interests in 
lands in Township 10, Range 4 WELS and Township 13, Range 5 WELS, to remove 
language added in the bill allowing the director to reconfigure tracts and language 
referencing reconfigurations of parcels to be conveyed and allowing the director to 
acquire interests managed by Prentiss and Carlisle Management Company in Township 
11, Range 4 WELS E/2. 
The amendment requires the bureau to report to the joint 
standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over nonreserved public lands 
and public reserved lands matters on the amount of funds in the public nonreserved lands 
acquisition fund and the Public Reserved Lands Acquisition Fund by county including the 
funds received pursuant to transactions authorized by this legislation. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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LD 1789 
LR 2738(02) 
An Act Authorizing Changes to the Ownership and Leases of Certain Public Lands 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Am ended by Committee Amendment 'A" ( 5 - 'II L,) 
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Certain prope1ty transactions authorized 
Potential current biennium revenue increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This bill would authorize the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (ACF) to amend a property lease 
at Long Falls Dam Road to allow a sublease for recreational purposes and the sale of ce1iain state-owned lands 
located in Oxford and Aroostook Counties. The bill does not specify the financial tenns of the authorized transactionc 
but does include a provision that any proceeds from sales be rep01ied back to the Committee on Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry. The bill also directs ACF to amend the annual reports on the Public Nonreserved Lands 
Acquisition Fund and the Public Reserved Lands Acquisition Fund to report the amount of funds in each by county. 
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