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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">White House Press Release, April 11 2022</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">New Public-Private One-Stop Shop Will Make It Easier for Communities to Access Grants and Will Deliver Landscape-Scale Impact</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">On April 11, the Biden-Harris Administration launched a $1 billion </span><a href="https://www.nfwf.org/programs/america-beautiful-challenge"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">America
the Beautiful Challenge</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> that will leverage Federal conservation and restoration investments with private and philanthropic contributions to accelerate land, water, and wildlife
conservation efforts across the country.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The America the Beautiful Challenge is anchored by an initial commitment of $440 million of Federal resources over the next five years to a new public-private grant program,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.nfwf.org/programs/america-beautiful-challenge"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">administered</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">by
the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), that will support locally led ecosystem restoration projects that invest in watershed restoration, resilience, equitable access, workforce development, corridors and connectivity, and collaborative conservation,
consistent with the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/2021/05/06/biden-harris-administration-outlines-america-the-beautiful-initiative/"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">America
the Beautiful Initiative</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">. The historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a major source of the initial Federal investments for the America the Beautiful Challenge.</span></o:p></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">See full article: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/2022/04/11/biden-harris-administration-launches-1-billion-america-the-beautiful-challenge-to-support-and-accelerate-locally-led-conservation-and-restoration-projects/</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></div>
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