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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3599 

To reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination 

Act of 2000, to provide full funding for the Payments in Lieu of Taxes 

program, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 7, 2011 

Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. LUJA ́N, Ms. BERKLEY, and Mr. MATHESON) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 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 

A BILL 

To reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community 

Self-Determination Act of 2000, to provide full funding 

for the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program, and for 

other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘County Payments Re5 authorization Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF2 DETERMINATION PROGRAM. 

3 The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-De4 termination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is 

5 amended— 

6 (1) in section 3(11)— 

7 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 

8 ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end; 

9 (B) in subparagraph (B)— 

10 (i) by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2009 and 

11 each fiscal year thereafter’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘each of fiscal years 2009 through 2011’’; 

13 and 

14 (ii) by striking the period at the end 

15 and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

16 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘(C) for fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal 

18 year thereafter, the amount that is equal to 95 

19 percent of the full funding amount for the pre20 ceding fiscal year.’’; 

21 (2) in sections 101, 102, 203, 207, 208, 304, 

22 and 402, by striking ‘‘2011’’ each place it appears 

23 and inserting ‘‘2016’’; 

24 (3) in section 102— 

25 (A) by striking ‘‘2008’’ each place it ap26 pears and inserting ‘‘2012’’; 


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1 (B) in subsection (b)(2)(B), by inserting 

2 ‘‘in 2012’’ before ‘‘, the election’’; and 

3 (C) in subsection (d)(3)(A)(i)— 

4 (i) by striking ‘‘An eligible county’’ 

5 and inserting ‘‘The Governor of each eligi6 ble State’’; and 

7 (ii) by striking ‘‘by the’’ and inserting 

8 ‘‘by an’’; 

9 (4) in section 103(d)(2), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 

10 2011’’ and inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2011 

11 through 2016’’; 

12 (5) in section 202, by adding at the end the fol13 lowing: 

14 ‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—A resource advi15 sory committee may, in accordance with section 203, pro16 pose to use not more than 10 percent of the project funds 

17 of an eligible county for any fiscal year for administrative 

18 expenses associated with operating the resource advisory 

19 committee under this title.’’; 

20 (6) in section 204(e)(3)(B)(iii), by striking 

21 ‘‘and 2011’’ and inserting ‘‘through 2016’’; 

22 (7) in section 205(a)(4), by striking ‘‘2006’’ 

23 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘2011’’; 

24 (8) in section 302(a)(2)(A), by inserting ‘‘and’’ 

25 after the semicolon; and 


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1 (9) in section 304(b), by striking ‘‘2012’’ and 

2 inserting ‘‘2017’’. 

3 SEC. 3. PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES. 

4 Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, is 

5 amended by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting ‘‘2017’’. 

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