115th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To provide for consistent and reliable authority and funding to meet conservation and deferred maintenance needs affecting lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
June 8, 2017
Mr. Simpson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
To provide for consistent and reliable authority and funding to meet conservation and deferred maintenance needs affecting lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Land and National Park Deferred Maintenance Act” or the “LAND Act”.
SEC. 2. Land and Water Conservation Fund.
(a) Reauthorization.—Section 200302 of title 54, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “September 30, 2018, ” and inserting “September 30, 2024”; and
(2) in paragraph (1) of subsection (c), by striking “September 30, 2018”, and inserting “September 30, 2024”.
(b) Funding.—Section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(a) Funding for fiscal years 2018 through 2024.—From amounts covered into the fund under section 200302 of this chapter—
“(1) $450,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be available for expenditure to carry out the purposes of this Act, without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Fund (including accounts and programs made available from the Fund under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115–31)); and
“(2) the remainder of amounts covered into the fund shall be available subject to appropriations, which may be made without fiscal year limitation.
“(b) Uses.—Amounts made available for obligation or expenditure from the fund may be obligated or expended only as provided in this chapter.”.
(c) Allocation and uses of funds.—Section 200304 of title 54, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking “There” and inserting “(a) In General.—There”; and
(2) by striking the second sentence and inserting the following:
“(b) Allocation.—Of amounts appropriated or expended from the Fund—
“(1) $180,000,000 shall be used for Federal purposes under section 200306;
“(2) $220,000,000 shall be used—
“(A) to provide financial assistance to States under section 200305;
“(B) for the Forest Legacy Program established under section 7 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2103c);
“(C) for the American Battlefield Protection Program established under chapter 3081; and
“(D) for cooperative endangered species grants authorized under section 6 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535); and
“(3) remaining appropriations or expenditures shall be used for activities described under paragraphs (1) and (2).
“(c) Priorities.—The President shall, as part of the President’s annual budget submission to Congress, submit to Congress detailed account, program, and project allocations for funds made available under paragraph (b)(1). Acts of appropriation may provide alternate allocations for such amounts.
“(d) Prohibition on use of eminent domain.—No funds made available to a State under this Act may be used for the acquisition of land, water, or an interest in land or water by eminent domain.”.
(d) Recreation access.—Section 200306 of title 54, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(c) Public access.—Not less than 1.5 percent of amounts appropriated or expended under this chapter in each fiscal year shall be made available for the fiscal year for projects that secure recreational public access to existing Federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.”.
(e) Conforming amendments.—In title 54, United States Code—
(1) in section 200302, paragraph (3) of subsection (c) is amended by inserting “or otherwise expended” after “Congress”;
(A) the first sentence is amended by inserting “or expenditures” after “appropriations”; and
(B) the second sentence is amended by inserting “or expenditures” after “appropriations”;
(A) the matter preceding paragraph (1) of subsection (b) is amended by inserting “or otherwise provided” after “appropriated”;
(B) paragraph (1) of subsection (b) is amended by inserting “expenditures” after “appropriations”; and
(C) paragraph (2) of subsection (b) is amended by inserting “expenditure” after “appropriation”; and
(A) paragraph (1) is amended by inserting “or expended” after “appropriated”;
(B) in paragraph (2), subparagraph (B)(ii) is amended by inserting “or expended” after “appropriated”;
(C) paragraph (4) is amended by inserting “or expenditures” after “appropriations” each time it appears; and
(D) subsection (b) is amended by inserting “or expenditures” after “Appropriations” each time it appears.
(f) Clerical amendment.—The table of sections for chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 200303 and inserting the following:
“200303. Funding.”.
SEC. 3. National Park Service Maintenance and Revitalization Conservation Fund.
(a) In general.—There is hereby established in the Treasury a special account to be known as the “National Park Service and Related Agencies Maintenance and Revitalization Conservation Fund”.
(b) Availability of Funds.—For each of fiscal years 2018 through 2024, $450,000,000 shall be available for expenditure to carry out the purposes of this Act, without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Fund. Amounts from the Fund shall not be used for the acquisition of land or interests in land.
(c) Deposits.—At the beginning of each applicable fiscal year, there shall be deposited in the Fund $450,000,000 from mineral revenues due and payable to the United States that are not otherwise credited, covered, or deposited under Federal law.
(d) Department of the Interior.—Of funds made available under subsection (b) each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior shall use the following amounts for high priority deferred maintenance needs that support critical infrastructure and visitor services:
(1) $25,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
(2) $25,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.
(3) $375,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service.
(e) Department of Agriculture.—Of funds made available under subsection (b) each fiscal year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall use $25,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Forest Service for high priority deferred maintenance needs that support critical infrastructure and visitor services.
It is the sense of Congress that the costs of carrying out this Act should be offset.