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[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1957 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1957

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty

                                 An Act

 
 To amend title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, and provide 
   for the use of amounts in a National Parks and Public Land Legacy 
Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of the National Park 
Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land 
Management, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Indian Education, and 
     to provide permanent, dedicated funding for the Land and Water 
               Conservation 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 ``Great American Outdoors Act''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND.
    (a) In General.--Subtitle II of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after chapter 2003 the following:

 ``CHAPTER 2004--NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND

``Sec.
``200401. Definitions.
``200402. National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.

``Sec. 200401. Definitions
    ``In this chapter:
        ``(1) Asset.--The term `asset' means any real property, 
    including any physical structure or grouping of structures, 
    landscape, trail, or other tangible property, that--
            ``(A) has a specific service or function; and
            ``(B) is tracked and managed as a distinct, identifiable 
        entity by the applicable covered agency.
        ``(2) Covered agency.--The term `covered agency' means--
            ``(A) the Service;
            ``(B) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service;
            ``(C) the Forest Service;
            ``(D) the Bureau of Land Management; and
            ``(E) the Bureau of Indian Education.
        ``(3) Fund.--The term `Fund' means the National Parks and 
    Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund established by section 
    200402(a).
        ``(4) Project.--The term `project' means any activity to reduce 
    or eliminate deferred maintenance of an asset, which may include 
    resolving directly related infrastructure deficiencies of the asset 
    that would not by itself be classified as deferred maintenance.
``Sec. 200402. National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund
    ``(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the `National Parks and Public Land 
Legacy Restoration Fund'.
    ``(b) Deposits.--
        ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), for 
    each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025, there shall be deposited in 
    the Fund an amount equal to 50 percent of all energy development 
    revenues due and payable to the United States from oil, gas, coal, 
    or alternative or renewable energy development on Federal land and 
    water credited, covered, or deposited as miscellaneous receipts 
    under Federal law in the preceding fiscal year.
        ``(2) Maximum amount.--The amount deposited in the Fund under 
    paragraph (1) shall not exceed $1,900,000,000 for any fiscal year.
        ``(3) Effect on other revenues.--Nothing in this section 
    affects the disposition of revenues that--
            ``(A) are due to the United States, special funds, trust 
        funds, or States from mineral and energy development on Federal 
        land and water; or
            ``(B) have been otherwise appropriated--
                ``(i) under Federal law, including--

                    ``(I) the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 
                2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109-432); and
                    ``(II) the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
                seq.); or

                ``(ii) from--

                    ``(I) the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
                established under chapter 2003; or
                    ``(II) the Historic Preservation Fund established 
                under chapter 3031.

    ``(c) Availability of Funds.--Amounts deposited in the Fund shall 
be available to the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture, as 
provided in subsection (e), without further appropriation or fiscal 
year limitation.
    ``(d) Investment of Amounts.--
        ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may request the Secretary of 
    the Treasury to invest any portion of the Fund that is not, as 
    determined by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of 
    Agriculture, required to meet the current needs of the Fund.
        ``(2) Requirement.--An investment requested under paragraph (1) 
    shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury in a public debt 
    security--
            ``(A) with a maturity suitable to the needs of the Fund, as 
        determined by the Secretary; and
            ``(B) bearing interest at a rate determined by the 
        Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration current 
        market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the 
        United States of comparable maturity.
        ``(3) Credits to fund.--The income on investments of the Fund 
    under this subsection shall be credited to, and form a part of, the 
    Fund.
    ``(e) Use of Funds.--
        ``(1) In general.--Amounts deposited in the Fund for each 
    fiscal year shall be used for priority deferred maintenance 
    projects in the System, in the National Wildlife Refuge System, on 
    public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management, for the 
    Bureau of Indian Education schools, and in the National Forest 
    System, as follows:
            ``(A) 70 percent of the amounts deposited in the Fund for 
        each fiscal year shall be allocated to the Service.
            ``(B) 15 percent of the amounts deposited in the Fund for 
        each fiscal year shall be allocated to the Forest Service.
            ``(C) 5 percent of the amounts deposited in the Fund for 
        each fiscal year shall be allocated to the United States Fish 
        and Wildlife Service.
            ``(D) 5 percent of the amounts deposited in the Fund for 
        each fiscal year shall be allocated to the Bureau of Land 
        Management.
            ``(E) 5 percent of the amounts deposited in the Fund for 
        each fiscal year shall be allocated to the Bureau of Indian 
        Education.
        ``(2) Limitations.--
            ``(A) Non-transportation projects.--Over the term of the 
        Fund, within each covered agency, not less than 65 percent of 
        amounts from the Fund shall be allocated for non-transportation 
        projects.
            ``(B) Transportation projects.--The amounts remaining in 
        the Fund after the allocations required under subparagraph (A) 
        may be allocated for transportation projects of the covered 
        agencies, including paved and unpaved roads, bridges, tunnels, 
        and paved parking areas.
            ``(C) Plan.--Any priority deferred maintenance project 
        funded under this section shall be consistent with an 
        applicable transportation, deferred maintenance, or capital 
        improvement plan developed by the applicable covered agency.
    ``(f) Prohibited Use of Funds.--No amounts in the Fund shall be 
used--
        ``(1) for land acquisition;
        ``(2) to supplant discretionary funding made available for 
    annually recurring facility operations, maintenance, and 
    construction needs; or
        ``(3) for bonuses for employees of the Federal Government that 
    are carrying out this section.
    ``(g) Submission of Priority List of Projects to Congress.--Not 
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the 
Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the 
Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and Appropriations of the 
Senate and the Committees on Natural Resources and Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives a list of projects to be funded for fiscal 
year 2021 that--
        ``(1) are identified by the Secretary and the Secretary of 
    Agriculture as priority deferred maintenance projects; and
        ``(2) as of the date of the submission of the list, are ready 
    to be implemented.
    ``(h) Submission of Annual List of Projects to Congress.--Until the 
date on which all of the amounts in the Fund are expended, the 
President shall annually submit to Congress, together with the annual 
budget of the United States, a list of projects to be funded from the 
Fund that includes a detailed description of each project, including 
the estimated expenditures from the Fund for the project for the 
applicable fiscal year.
    ``(i) Alternate Allocation.--
        ``(1) In general.--Appropriations Acts may provide for 
    alternate allocation of amounts made available under this section, 
    consistent with the allocations to covered agencies under 
    subsection (e)(1).
        ``(2) Allocation by president.--
            ``(A) No alternate allocations.--If Congress has not 
        enacted legislation establishing alternate allocations by the 
        date on which the Act making full-year appropriations for the 
        Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
        for the applicable fiscal year is enacted into law, amounts 
        made available under subsection (c) shall be allocated by the 
        President.
            ``(B) Insufficient alternate allocation.--If Congress 
        enacts legislation establishing alternate allocations for 
        amounts made available under subsection (c) that are less than 
        the full amount appropriated under that subsection, the 
        difference between the amount appropriated and the alternate 
        allocation shall be allocated by the President.
    ``(j) Public Donations.--
        ``(1) In general.--The Secretary and the Secretary of 
    Agriculture may accept public cash or in-kind donations that 
    advance efforts--
            ``(A) to reduce the deferred maintenance backlog; and
            ``(B) to encourage relevant public-private partnerships.
        ``(2) Credits to fund.--Any cash donations accepted under 
    paragraph (1) shall be--
            ``(A) credited to, and form a part of, the Fund; and
            ``(B) allocated to the covered agency for which the 
        donation was made.
        ``(3) Other allocations.--Any donations allocated to a covered 
    agency under paragraph (2)(B) shall be allocated to the applicable 
    covered agency independently of the allocations under subsection 
    (e)(1).
    ``(k) Required Consideration for Accessibility.--In expending 
amounts from the Fund, the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall incorporate measures to improve the accessibility of assets and 
accommodate visitors and employees with disabilities in accordance with 
applicable law.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of chapters for subtitle II of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to chapter 2003 the following:

``2004.  National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund200401''.

    (c) GAO Study.--Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall--
        (1) conduct a study on the implementation of this section and 
    the amendments made by this section, including whether this section 
    and the amendments made by this section have effectively reduced 
    the priority deferred maintenance backlog of the covered agencies 
    (as that term is defined in section 200401 of title 54, United 
    States Code); and
        (2) submit to Congress a report that describes the results of 
    the study under paragraph (1).
SEC. 3. PERMANENT FULL FUNDING OF THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND.
    (a) In General.--Section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 200303. Availability of funds
    ``(a) In General.--Any amounts deposited in the Fund under section 
200302 for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter shall be 
made available for expenditure for fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal 
year thereafter, without further appropriation or fiscal year 
limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Fund (including accounts 
and programs made available from the Fund pursuant to the Further 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94; 133 Stat. 
2534)).
    ``(b) Additional Amounts.--Amounts made available under subsection 
(a) shall be in addition to amounts made available to the Fund under 
section 105 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 
U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109-432) or otherwise appropriated from 
the Fund.
    ``(c) Allocation Authority.--
        ``(1) Submission of cost estimates.--The President shall submit 
    to Congress detailed account, program, and project allocations of 
    the full amount made available under subsection (a)--
            ``(A) for fiscal year 2021, not later than 90 days after 
        the date of enactment of the Great American Outdoors Act; and
            ``(B) for each fiscal year thereafter, as part of the 
        annual budget submission of the President.
        ``(2) Alternate allocation.--
            ``(A) In general.--Appropriations Acts may provide for 
        alternate allocation of amounts made available under subsection 
        (a), including allocations by account, program, and project.
            ``(B) Allocation by president.--
                ``(i) No alternate allocations.--If Congress has not 
            enacted legislation establishing alternate allocations by 
            the date on which the Act making full-year appropriations 
            for the Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
            Related Agencies for the applicable fiscal year is enacted 
            into law, amounts made available under subsection (a) shall 
            be allocated by the President.
                ``(ii) Insufficient alternate allocation.--If Congress 
            enacts legislation establishing alternate allocations for 
            amounts made available under subsection (a) that are less 
            than the full amount appropriated under that subsection, 
            the difference between the amount appropriated and the 
            alternate allocation shall be allocated by the President.
        ``(3) Recreational public access.--Amounts expended from the 
    Fund under this section shall be consistent with the requirements 
    for recreational public access for hunting, fishing, recreational 
    shooting, or other outdoor recreational purposes under section 
    200306(c).
        ``(4) Annual report.--The President shall submit to Congress an 
    annual report that describes the final allocation by account, 
    program, and project of amounts made available under subsection 
    (a), including a description of the status of obligations and 
    expenditures.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
        (1) Section 200302(c) of title 54, United States Code, is 
    amended by striking paragraph (3).
        (2) Section 200306(a)(2)(B) of title 54, United States Code, is 
    amended by striking clause (iii).
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 2003 of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to section 200303 and inserting the following:

``200303. Availability of funds.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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