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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5402 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5402

  To amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National 
 Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2024

    Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. King, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. Warner) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

 
  To amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National 
 Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``America the Beautiful Act''.

SEC. 2. REUAUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LAND LEGACY 
              RESTORATION FUND.

    (a) Deposits.--Section 200402(b) of title 54, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2025'' and inserting 
        ``2033''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``$1,900,000,000'' and 
        inserting ``$2,000,000,000''.
    (b) Use of Funds.--Section 200402(e) of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``in the National Wildlife Refuge System'' and 
        inserting ``on land administered by the United States Fish and 
        Wildlife Service''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Project prioritization.--The Secretary and the 
        Secretary of Agriculture shall prioritize the use of amounts 
        allocated from the Fund for projects that receive donations 
        under subsection (j) of not less than 15 percent of the total 
        costs of the applicable project.''.
    (c) Submission of Annual List of Projects to Congress.--Section 
200402(h) of title 54, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
``and the subsequent fiscal year'' before the period at the end.
    (d) Alternate Allocation.--Section 200402(i) of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``for the applicable 
        fiscal year and subsequent fiscal year'' after ``under this 
        section''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) No full-year appropriations enacted.--If 
                Congress has not enacted full-year appropriations for 
                the Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
                Related Agencies for the applicable fiscal year by the 
                end of the previous fiscal year, amounts made available 
                under subsection (c) shall be allocated by the 
                President, if that allocation had previously been 
                approved under paragraph (1) as an allocation for the 
                subsequent fiscal year.''.
    (e) Public Donations.--Section 200402(j) of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Public'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``public'';
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
        (3) and (4), respectively;
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Solicitation of donations.--The Secretary and the 
        Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the public 
        information on the ability of the Secretary and the Secretary 
        of Agriculture to accept donations under paragraph (1), 
        including through--
                    ``(A) public awareness campaigns;
                    ``(B) physical or digital donation locations at 
                project sites; and
                    ``(C) during the checkout process for the purchase 
                of a physical or digital pass to access a Federal 
                recreational site or an interagency pass, such as the 
                America the Beautiful--the National Parks and Federal 
                Recreational Lands Pass.'';
            (5) by striking paragraph (3) (as so redesignated) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(3) Credits to fund.--Any cash donations accepted under 
        paragraph (1)--
                    ``(A) shall be--
                            ``(i) credited to, and form a part of, the 
                        Fund; and
                            ``(ii) allocated to the covered agency for 
                        which the donation was made; and
                    ``(B) may be allocated to specific projects 
                included on a list submitted under subsection (h).''; 
                and
            (6) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``paragraph (2)(B)'' and inserting ``paragraph (3)(A)(ii)''.
    (f) Disposal of Assets; Report to Congress.--Section 200402 of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(l) Disposal of Assets.--The Secretary and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall provide for the disposal of constructed assets 
included on a deferred maintenance list submitted under subsection (h) 
that no longer serve the public interest or advance the mission of the 
applicable unit to which the asset belongs.
    ``(m) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this subsection, the Secretary and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
report that--
            ``(1) describes actions taken by the covered agencies 
        without using amounts from the Fund to reduce deferred 
        maintenance in the System, on land administered by the United 
        States Fish and Wildlife Service, on public land administered 
        by the Bureau of Land Management, for the Bureau of Indian 
        Education schools, and in the National Forest System; and
            ``(2) includes a plan from the covered agencies to increase 
        preventative annual and cyclic maintenance activities by 
        covered agencies to a level that properly maintains the assets 
        of the covered agencies and prevents the addition of assets to 
        a deferred maintenance list under subsection (h).''.
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