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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4408 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4408

  To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements 
  under such Act for land management related to Department of Defense 
installations and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate 
           interagency cooperation in conservation programs.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 19, 2012

 Ms. Bordallo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Natural Resources, 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

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                                 A BILL

 
  To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements 
  under such Act for land management related to Department of Defense 
installations and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate 
           interagency cooperation in conservation programs.

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

SECTION 1. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS UNDER SIKES ACT FOR LAND MANAGEMENT 
              RELATED TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS.

    (a) Multiyear Agreements To Fund Endowment.--Subsection (b) of 
section 103A of the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670c-1) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Funds''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) In the case of a cooperative agreement described in 
subsection (a)(2), funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
a fiscal year may be obligated to cover the cost of funding an 
endowment for the costs of natural resource maintenance and improvement 
activities provided for under the agreement.''.
    (b) Availability of Funds and Relation to Other Laws.--Subsection 
(c) of such section is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c) Availability of Funds and Relation to Other Laws.--(1) 
Cooperative agreements and interagency agreements entered into under 
this section shall be subject to the availability of funds.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, a 
cooperative agreement under this section may be used to acquire 
property or services for the direct benefit or use of the United States 
Government.''.

SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN CONSERVATION 
              PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF DEFENSE, AGRICULTURE, 
              INTERIOR, AND COMMERCE.

    Section 2684a of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following new 
        subsection (i):
    ``(i) Facilitation of Interagency Cooperation in Conservation 
Programs.--In order to facilitate interagency cooperation and enhance 
the effectiveness of actions that will protect both the environment and 
military readiness, and notwithstanding any other provision of law 
relating to matching funds or cost-sharing requirements, the recipient 
of funds provided by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a 
military department pursuant an agreement under this section or under 
the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670 et seq.) may, with regard to the lands and 
waters within the scope of the agreement, use such funds to satisfy any 
matching funds or cost-sharing requirement of any conservation program 
of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, or the 
Department of the Interior.''.
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