Act 319 Clean and Green Software Leverages County Investment in GIS Data

Pennsylvania counties that enact Act 319, also known as the Clean and Green Program, provide tax relief for property owners who are primarily involved in agricultural and forestry activities. A property enrolled in Act 319 is valued based on its agricultural and forestry productivity potential rather than its full real estate value, thus providing tax relief to property owners. 

Pennsylvania counties that have invested in GIS software and data use our Act 319 Clean and Green GIS desktop software to:   

• Retrieve a property by user supplied Parcel Identifier Number (PIN) 
• Clip soils and woods by the parcel boundary
• Edit wooded areas if more recent digital ortho-photo images are available
• Add home sites which are excluded from Act 319 property value calculations
• Calculate total acres by soil productivity class
• Calculate total acres by wooded area
• Calculate total Act 319 property value 
• Output a formatted map and report in Acrobat pdf

 Why use Act 319 Clean and Green Software?

• Increases productivity through time savings
• Yields a direct return on investments in GIS software and data
• Achieves consistent and objective results through automation
• Accesses the latest GIS data from a shared enterprise GIS data server

Contact us today to discuss how geographIT^™ Act 319 software can help your productivity. 

Data Requirements

Geo-processing:

Parcels as polygons

Soils as polygons (Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Wooded areas as polygons

Per acre productivity rates for soil classes (PA Dept. of Agriculture)

Per acre productivity rates for wooded areas (PA Dept of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry)

Reference and orientation:

• Municipal boundaries
  Recent digital ortho-imagery
• Software Requirements:
• • ArcView 9.x or ArcSDE 9.x