Grant Manual page 22, Appendix A – VLCF Grant Specifications, item I.6. states:
“For nonprofit applicants:
        a. an acknowledgement letter from the public body willing to: hold or co-hold an easement on the property; or hold the property in fee simple, and
        b. evidence that the nonprofit meets the holder requirements found in Va. Code §§ 10.1-1009 to 10.1-1017.”

Please revise to reflect changes indicated in HB846 Virginia Land Conservation Foundation; purposes of Foundation, easements which takes effect July 1, 2026, such as – for applicants requesting nonprofit sole holder easement project grant support – documentation that the land trust is accredited by the national Land Trust Accreditation Commission or meets a similar set of standards and practices adopted by the Board of Trustees and documentation that the Department of Conservation and Recreation or another public body is willing to serve as third party enforcer. 

HB846 Virginia Land Conservation Foundation; purposes of Foundation, easements takes effect July 1, 2026. It allows the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees to “waive the requirement for a holder of a conservation easement to have such easement jointly held with a public body whenever such holder acquires any interest in land other than a fee simple interest from a grant or transfer from the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, provided that such holder is accredited by the national Land Trust Accreditation Commission or meets a similar set of standards and practices adopted by the Board of Trustees and the easement contains a third party right of enforcement, as defined in relevant law, in favor of the Department of Conservation and Recreation or another public body.”