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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. 

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 

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. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS UNDER SIKES 

2 ACT FOR LAND MANAGEMENT RELATED TO 

3 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS. 

4 (a) MULTIYEAR AGREEMENTS TO FUND ENDOW5 MENT.—Subsection (b) of section 103A of the Sikes Act 

6 (16 U.S.C. 670c–1) is amended— 

7 (1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘Funds’’; and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

9 paragraph: 

10 ‘‘(2) In the case of a cooperative agreement described 

11 in subsection (a)(2), funds appropriated to the Depart12 ment of Defense for a fiscal year may be obligated to cover 

13 the cost of funding an endowment for the costs of natural 

14 resource maintenance and improvement activities provided 

15 for under the agreement.’’. 

16 (b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND RELATION TO

17 OTHER LAWS.—Subsection (c) of such section is amended 

18 to read as follows: 

19 ‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND RELATION TO

20 OTHER LAWS.—(1) Cooperative agreements and inter21 agency agreements entered into under this section shall 

22 be subject to the availability of funds. 

23 ‘‘(2) Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United 

24 States Code, a cooperative agreement under this section 

25 may be used to acquire property or services for the direct 

26 benefit or use of the United States Government.’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN 

2 CONSERVATION PROGRAMS OF THE DEPART3 MENTS OF DEFENSE, AGRICULTURE, INTE4 RIOR, AND COMMERCE. 

5 Section 2684a of title 10, United States Code, is 

6 amended— 

7 (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection 

8 (j); and 

9 (2) by inserting after subsection (h) the fol10 lowing new subsection (i): 

11 ‘‘(i) FACILITATION OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION

12 IN CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.—In order to facilitate 

13 interagency cooperation and enhance the effectiveness of 

14 actions that will protect both the environment and military 

15 readiness, and notwithstanding any other provision of law 

16 relating to matching funds or cost-sharing requirements, 

17 the recipient of funds provided by the Secretary of Defense 

18 or the Secretary of a military department pursuant an 

19 agreement under this section or under the Sikes Act (16 

20 U.S.C. 670 et seq.) may, with regard to the lands and 

21 waters within the scope of the agreement, use such funds 

22 to satisfy any matching funds or cost-sharing requirement 

23 of any conservation program of the Department of Agri24 culture, the Department of Commerce, or the Department 

25 of the Interior.’’. 

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