Valerio Conservation Easement Modification

In 2008, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) acquired a conservation easement from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in the Town of Kent, Putnam County, known as the Valerio Conservation Easement. When the DEP was acquiring the underlying fee for the Protected Property, it entered into a purchase contract in which the seller, John F. Valerio, retained a non-exclusive 25 foot-wide right of way for a future 10 foot-wide gravel driveway and associated utility lines that would burden the Protected Property. In 2002, due to a transcribing error, when the DEP recorded the Valerio Deed, the Valerio easement was mistakenly recorded as an access easement only and did not include the dimensions of the 25 foot-wide right of way with a 10 foot-wide gravel driveway as specified in the Purchase Contract.

• View the 2008 Valerio Conservation Easement (PDF)

The Proposed Modification

The DEP desires to modify the conservation easement to correct the aforementioned transcribing error and allow for the DEP to convey right of ways or easements to benefit the Putnam County Tax Map Parcel Section 33, Block 1, Lot 58.2.

• View the proposed Valerio Conservation Easement Modification (PDF)

Net Conservation Benefit

A net conservation benefit is not necessary as the modification is a minor correction of a transcribing error.

Public Comment Opportunity

The public comment opportunity for the proposed conservation easement modification has concluded.