Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. The town of Amherst may transfer care, custody and control of a certain portion of a conservation maintenance easement from the conservation commission to the select board of the town. The select board may convey this portion of the conservation maintenance easement to Seymour and Alice Epstein or their successors and assigns. This portion of easement is shown on a plan of land entitled "Plan of Land in Amherst Prepared for Seymour and Alice Epstein", dated February 24, 1998.

SECTION 2. In consideration of the easement authorized in section 1, Seymour and Alice Epstein shall convey to the town of Amherst an easement for conservation maintenance purposes as shown on the plan described in section 1.