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LCHIP requests continued $5.5 million appropriation; surcharges fund grants for landscape and historic preservation
Summary
The Land and Community Heritage Investment Program told the Senate Finance Committee it wants to maintain a $5.5 million biennial appropriation funded by a document recording surcharge to continue statewide conservation and historic preservation grants.
Paula Belmore, executive director of the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP), told the Senate Finance Committee the program’s grantmaking relies on a recording‑document surcharge adopted in 2008 and that LCHIP is requesting a continued appropriation of $5.5 million for the biennium to support conservation and historic preservation projects across New Hampshire.
Belmore said the surcharge — collected at registries of deeds —…
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