Materials
- CLE FORM—Understanding Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration (This form will open at 11:55am ET on 6/27/25 and be removed from this page after the conclusion of the program)
- Virtual Resource Room: Pennsylvania Clean and Green Act
- PowerPoint: Understanding Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration
Other Clean & Green Programs:
- Understanding the Basics of Pennsylvania’s ‘Clean & Green’ Preferential Tax Assessment Program (Feb. 24, 2023)
- Understanding Clean & Green Separations and Split-offs: Leasing, Subdividing, or Selling Enrolled Land (Feb. 23, 2024)
On Friday, June 27, 2025, from 12 noon–1:00 ET, the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law, alongside the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s (PDA) Agricultural Business Development Center (ABDC), will present the next webinar in the Understanding Agricultural Law Educational Series:
“Understanding Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration”
Under Pennsylvania’s Clean and Green Program (C&G), qualifying Pennsylvania farm and forestland owners can receive a preferential property tax assessment based upon the land’s current use rather than its highest and best use, usually resulting in tax savings for the landowners.
While created through a 1974 state statute, the program is operated exclusively at the county level by each County Tax Assessment Office—if a county chooses to participate and offer C&G preferential tax assessments. With 60 out of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties participating and approximately 11,000,000 acres enrolled in the program, C&G has been a staple of Pennsylvania’s farmland preservation.
This webinar will discuss C&G administration issues typically affected by county-level discretion, including acreage enrollment, planning a change of use, rollback assessments, and re-enrollment of eligible land after a rollback.
1 hour of substantive CLE credit available for Pennsylvania-licensed attorneys at no charge.
Learn more about the Understanding Agricultural Law Educational Series
Questions? Email Audry Thompson: aet17@psu.edu
