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Union Calendar No. 844 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 502 

[Report No. 115–1091] 

To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 12, 2017 

Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself and Mr. MEEHAN) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

DECEMBER 20, 2018 

Additional sponsors: Mr. REICHERT, Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania, Mr. 

LOBIONDO, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. THOMPSON of California, 

Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. FASO, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. 

KATKO, Mr. POLIS, Mr. HECK, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. NORTON, Ms. MOORE, 

Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. TONKO, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, 

Mr. KHANNA, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. POCAN, Ms. JUDY

CHU of California, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. BEYER, Ms. LEE, Mr. KEATING, 

Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. 

WELCH, Mr. PETERS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. 

COHEN, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. SOTO, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 

SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. 

LOEBSACK, Ms. ESTY of Connecticut, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Ms. 

LOFGREN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. 

FLEISCHMANN, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. KILMER, Mr. 

SMITH of New Jersey, Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire, Mr. MICHAEL

F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, 

Mr. WALZ, Mr. O’HALLERAN, Mr. AGUILAR, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. TITUS, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mrs. 

BUSTOS, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. ROYBALALLARD, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. 

SLAUGHTER, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. DELANEY, Mr. NADLER, Mr. NOLAN, Ms. 

ESHOO, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of 

New Mexico, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. 

KIND, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. HANABUSA, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. SANFORD, 


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Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. MOULTON, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. SUOZZI, 

Mr. EVANS, Mr. RUIZ, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. RUSH, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. 

COSTA, Mr. GARRETT, Mr. SIRES, Ms. ROSEN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. 

DEGETTE, Ms. BARRAGA ́N, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DEFAZIO, Miss RICE of 

New York, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. NEAL, Mr. HIMES, Mr. SCHRADER, Ms. 

SPEIER, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. KIHUEN, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. SINEMA, 

Ms. BORDALLO, Mrs. TORRES, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. GABBARD, Mr. LYNCH, 

Mr. GUTIE ́RREZ, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. CRIST, Mr. SERRANO, 

Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. 

LANCE, Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. HASTINGS, 

Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas, 

Mr. CA ́RDENAS, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. 

VEASEY, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. ROUZER, Mrs. DAVIS of 

California, Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. MCEACHIN, Ms. MENG, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. MAST, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Ms. BLUNT

ROCHESTER, Mr. CORREA, Mr. COOPER, Mr. BERA, Mr. MACARTHUR, 

Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. SEAN

PATRICK MALONEY of New York, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. SA ́NCHEZ, 

Mr. COLE, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. TURNER, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, 

Mr. LEVIN, Mrs. LOWEY, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. 

LAWSON of Florida, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. 

CONYERS, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA ́N of New Mexico, Mrs. 

MURPHY of Florida, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. DONOVAN, Mr. VARGAS, Mrs. 

DEMINGS, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Ms. EDDIE

BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. VELA, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. GENE

GREEN of Texas, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 

MEEKS, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. CUELLAR, Ms. BASS, Mr. DANNY

K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. DENT, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. PLASKETT, 

Ms. TENNEY, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. COLLINS of New 

York, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. REED, Mr. KNIGHT, Mr. RICE

of South Carolina, Mr. GIANFORTE, Mr. LAMB, Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. BERGMAN, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. YODER, Mr. 

MARINO, Mr. DENHAM, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, 

Miss GONZA ́LEZ-COLO ́N of Puerto Rico, Mr. BUCHANAN, and Mr. HURD


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DECEMBER 20, 2018 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 12, 2017] 


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A BILL 

To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water 

Conservation Fund. 


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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 ‘‘Land and Water Con5 servation Fund Reauthorization and Fairness Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF LAND AND WATER CON7 SERVATION FUND. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 200302 of title 54, United 

9 States Code, is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 

11 paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘During the period ending 

12 September 30, 2018, there’’ and inserting ‘‘There’’; 

13 and 

14 (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ‘‘through 

15 September 30, 2018’’. 

16 (b) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Section 200304 of title 

17 54, United States Code, is amended— 

18 (1) by striking ‘‘There’’ and inserting the fol19 lowing: 

20 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There’’; 

21 (2) by striking ‘‘Not less than 40 percent of such 

22 appropriations shall be available for Federal pur23 poses.’’; and 

24 (3) by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(b) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Of the total amount 

2 made available to the Fund through appropriations and de3 posited into the fund under section 105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf 

4 of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 

5 note)— 

6 ‘‘(1) not less than 40 percent of such amount 

7 shall be used for Federal purposes under section 

8 200306; and 

9 ‘‘(2) not less than 40 percent of such amount 

10 shall be used to provide financial assistance to States 

11 under section 200305.’’. 

12 (c) PARITY FOR TERRITORIES AND THE DISTRICT OF

13 COLUMBIA.—Section 200305(b) of title 54, United States 

14 Code, is amended by striking paragraph (5). 

15 (d) PUBLIC ACCESS.—Section 200306 of title 54, 

16 United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 

17 following: 

18 ‘‘(c) PUBLIC ACCESS.— 

19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts made avail20 able for expenditure in any fiscal year under section 

21 200303, not less than the greater of 3 percent of the 

22 amounts or $20,000,000 shall be made available for 

23 projects identified on the priority list developed under 

24 paragraph (2). 


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1 ‘‘(2) PRIORITY LIST.—The Secretary of the Inte2 rior and the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation 

3 with the head of each affected Federal agency, shall 

4 annually develop a priority list for projects related to 

5 Federal land under the jurisdiction of the applicable 

6 Secretary. 

7 ‘‘(3) CRITERIA.—Projects identified on the pri8 ority list developed under paragraph (2) shall— 

9 ‘‘(A) maintain or increase public access to 

10 existing Federal public land for hunting, fishing, 

11 recreational shooting, or other outdoor rec12 reational purposes through acquisition of rights13 of-way or acquisition of land (or any interest in 

14 land), including through equal value land ex15 changes; or 

16 ‘‘(B) enhance, maintain, or restore access on 

17 existing trails or rights-of-way.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 844 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 502 

[Report No. 115–1091] 

A BILL 

To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water 

D

Conservation Fund. 

ECEMBER 20, 2018 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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