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4. Within 180 days after the District -County Exchange, the District shall update the existing Management Plan for the Property ("the Plan") to include provisions for public access and public passive recreational uses that are consistent with the objectives of the Plan. The County shall have ninety (90) days from the date of receipt of the draft updated Plan to review the Plan and provide written comments to the District. The parties shall then negotiate in good faith to resolve any differences as to the Plan. The District shall prepare the final Plan within 90 days thereafter. The final Plan must be approved in writing by the District and the County. The District shall bear the cost of recreational trail improvements agreed to under the Plan. The Plan shall provide for construction of the infrastructure needed to allow public access to the Property and facilitate public passive recreational use of the Property, which shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, development of permanent trails for hiking and horseback riding. At least one such permanent trail shall connect the public vehicular access point on the western boundary of the Property with the uplands located in the central and eastern portion of the Property, which shall be completed within 18 months after the District -County Exchange. The Plan shall also include any improvements necessary to traverse a ditch that intersects the public access route so as to allow public access to the Property, which may include either a bridge or culverted crossing. The District shall construct the improvements necessary for vehicular access to the western boundary of the Property no later than twelve months from the District -County Exchange. The District shall also utilize its best efforts to negotiate a right of public access for hiking and horseback riding upon the existing dirt road along the northern boundary of the Property. The District shall be the lead manager of the Property in accordance with the requirements of sections 373.1391 and 373.1395, Florida Statutes. In accordance with section 373.1395, Florida Statutes, a fee shall not be charged for public recreational use of the Property. The Plan cannot be amended without prior written approval by the District and the County. Within 60 days of the District -County Exchange, the parties shall determine a means of ensuring that the State of Florida Board of Trustees of the hitemal Improvement Trust Fund ("the Trustees") or the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) must consent to any future alienation of the Property, or interest therein, in whole or in part. Upon receipt of an approving opinion from the County's bond counsel, the County may, at its option, transfer a portion of its undivided interest in the Property to the Trustees or FDEP. Alternatively, in the event the County cannot transfer or elects not to transfer an interest in the Property to the Trustees or FDEP, or the Trustees or FDEP decline to accept such transfer, the parties shall record a deed restriction providing that the Trustees or FDEP must consent to any future alienation of the Property, or interest therein, in whole or in part. If the Trustees or FDEP decline to consent to the recording of such a deed restriction, this paragraph shall be null and void. The County agrees that it shall not challenge the Corrigan Agreement before FLWAC or in any other civil or administrative forum.