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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1080 

To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements under 

such Act for land management related to Department of Defense readiness activities and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate 

interagency cooperation in conservation programs to avoid or reduce 

adverse impacts on military readiness activities. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 12, 2013 

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 readiness activities and to 

amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency cooperation in conservation programs to avoid 

or reduce adverse impacts on military readiness activities. 

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 READINESS AC4 TIVITIES. 

5 (a) MULTIYEAR AGREEMENTS TO FUND LONG-TERM

6 MANAGEMENT.—Subsection (b) of section 103A of the 

7 Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670c–1) is amended— 

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

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

10 paragraph: 

11 ‘‘(2) In the case of a cooperative agreement under 

12 subsection (a)(2), funds referred to in paragraph (1)— 

13 ‘‘(A) may be paid in a lump sum and include 

14 an amount intended to cover the future costs of the 

15 natural resource maintenance and improvement ac16 tivities provided for under the agreement; and 

17 ‘‘(B) may be invested by the recipient in ac18 cordance with the recipient’s own guidelines for the 

19 management and investment of financial assets, and 

20 any interest or income derived from such investment 

21 may be applied for the same purposes as the prin22 cipal.’’. 

23 (b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND RELATION TO

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

25 to read as follows: 


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

2 OTHER LAWS.—(1) Cooperative agreements and inter3 agency agreements entered into under this section shall 

4 be subject to the availability of funds. 

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

6 States Code, a cooperative agreement under this section 

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

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

9 SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN 

10 CONSERVATION PROGRAMS OF THE DEPART11 MENTS OF DEFENSE, AGRICULTURE, AND IN12 TERIOR TO AVOID OR REDUCE ADVERSE IM13 PACTS ON MILITARY READINESS ACTIVITIES. 

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

15 amended— 

16 (1) by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as 

17 subsections (i) and (j); and 

18 (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol19 lowing new subsection (h): 

20 ‘‘(h) INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN CONSERVATION

21 PROGRAMS TO AVOID OR REDUCE ADVERSE IMPACTS ON

22 MILITARY READINESS ACTIVITIES.—In order to facilitate 

23 interagency cooperation and enhance the effectiveness of 

24 actions that will protect both the environment and military 

25 readiness, the recipient of funds provided pursuant an 


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

2 U.S.C. et seq.) may, with regard to the lands and waters 

3 within the scope of the agreement, use such funds to sat4 isfy any matching funds or cost-sharing requirement of 

5 any conservation program of the Department of Agri6 culture or the Department of the Interior notwithstanding 

7 any limitation of such program on the source of matching 

8 or cost-sharing funds.’’. 

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