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Its request to lawmakers “would be far to the north of $8.8 million,” Fhemister said in an interview.
He declined to be more specific.
But in the past, the organization has advocated $50 million annually to support the state’s PDR program and $50 million for the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation. (The General Assembly created the foundation in 1999. The foundation has spent $21 million to protect more than 20,000 acres.)
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