‘‘(C) any agency-specific standards for the 
management of natural, cultural, historic, ar-
chaeological, recreational, and scenic resources; 
and 
‘‘(4) take into account training already received 
by Corps participants enrolled from qualified youth 
or conservation corps, including in the matters out-
lined in paragraph (2).’’. 
(6) In subsection (e) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘The Secretary may 
utilize the Corps or any qualified youth or 
conservation corps to carry out appro-
priate’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary may 
use Corps participants to carry out, under 
appropriate supervision and training, ap-
propriate natural and cultural resource’’; 
and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘law on public lands.’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘law. Such 
projects may include, but are not limited 
to— 
‘‘(A) protection, restoration, or enhancement 
of ecosystem components to promote species re-
covery, improve biological diversity, enhance 
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productivity and carbon sequestration, and en-
hance adaptability and resilience of public lands 
and resources in the face of climate change and 
other natural and human disturbances; 
‘‘(B) promoting the health of forests and 
public lands, refuges, and coastal and marine 
areas, including— 
‘‘(i) protection and restoration of wa-
tersheds and forest, riparian, estuarine, 
grassland, coral reef, intertidal, or other 
habitat; 
‘‘(ii) reduction of wildfire risk and 
mitigation of damage from insects, disease, 
and disasters; 
‘‘(iii) erosion control; 
‘‘(iv) control or removal of invasive, 
noxious, or non-native species; and 
‘‘(v) restoration of native species; 
‘‘(C) collection of biological, archaeological, 
and other scientific data, including monitoring 
of climatological information, species popu-
lations and movement, habitat status, and other 
factors; 
‘‘(D) assisting in historical and cultural re-
search, archival and curatorial work, oral his-
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tory projects, documentary photography, and ac-
tivities that support the creation of public works 
of art related to public lands; and 
‘‘(E) construction, repair, rehabilitation, 
green building retrofitting, and maintenance of 
roads, trails, campgrounds, and other facilities, 
employee housing, cultural and historic sites and 
structures, and facilities that further the pur-
poses of the Public Lands Service Corps.’’. 
(B) By redesignating paragraphs (2) and 
(3) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively. 
(C) By inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) VISITOR SERVICES.—The Secretary may— 
‘‘(A) enter into or amend an existing coop-
erative agreement with a cooperating associa-
tion, educational institute, friends group, or 
similar nonprofit partner organization for the 
purpose of providing training and work experi-
ence to Corps participants in areas including, 
but not limited to, sales, office work, accounting, 
and management provided that the work experi-
ence directly relates to the protection and man-
agement of the public lands; and 
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‘‘(B) allow Corps participants to help pro-
mote visitor safety and enjoyment of public 
lands, and assist in the gathering of visitor use 
data. 
‘‘(3) INTERPRETATION.—The Secretary may as-
sign Corps participants to provide interpretation or 
education services for the public under the appro-
priate direction and supervision of agency personnel, 
including— 
‘‘(A) providing orientation and information 
services to visitors, including services for non- 
English speaking visitors and visitors who use 
American Sign Language; 
‘‘(B) assisting agency personnel in the de-
livery of interpretive or educational programs, 
including outdoor learning and classroom learn-
ing; 
‘‘(C) presenting programs on Federal lands 
or at schools, after-school programs, and youth- 
serving community programs that relate the per-
sonal experience of the Corps participant for the 
purpose of promoting public awareness of the 
Corps, its role in public land management agen-
cies, and its availability to potential partici-
pants; and 
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‘‘(D) 
creating 
nonpersonal 
interpretive 
products, such as Web site content, Junior Rang-
er program books, printed handouts, and audio-
visual programs.’’. 
(D) In paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), 
by striking ‘‘Appropriate conservation projects’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Appropriate natural and cultural 
resources conservation projects’’. 
(7) In subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘appropriate conservation project’’ inserting 
‘‘appropriate natural and cultural resources conserva-
tion project’’. 
(8) By amending the text of subsection (f)(2) (as 
so redesignated) to read as follows: ‘‘will instill in 
Corps participants a work ethic and a sense of public 
service;’’. 
(9) In subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘on eligible service lands’’. 
(10) By adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) OTHER
PARTICIPANTS.—The Secretary may 
allow volunteers from other programs administered or des-
ignated by the Secretary to participate as volunteers in 
projects carried out under this section on such terms as the 
Secretary considers appropriate.’’. 
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(f) RESIDENTIAL CONSERVATION CENTERS AND PRO-
GRAM SUPPORT.—Section 205 of the Act is amended as fol-
lows: 
(1) In the section heading, by striking ‘‘CON-
SERVATION’’ and inserting ‘‘RESIDENTIAL CON-
SERVATION’’. 
(2) In subsection (a)— 
(A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may establish 
residential conservation centers for— 
‘‘(A) such housing, food service, medical 
care, transportation, and other services as the 
Secretary deems necessary for the Public Lands 
Service Corps; and 
‘‘(B) the conduct of appropriate residential 
conservation projects under this Act.’’; 
(B) by striking paragraph (2) and redesig-
nating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
(2) and (3), respectively; 
(C) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated)— 
(i) in the text, by inserting ‘‘residen-
tial’’ before ‘‘conservation centers’’; and 
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(ii) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘RESI-
DENTIAL’’ before ‘‘CONSERVATION CENTERS’’; 
and 
(D) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), 
by striking ‘‘with a State or’’ and inserting ‘‘a 
cooperative agreement with another Federal, 
State, or’’. 
(3) In subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) The Secretary’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may make arrangements 
with other Federal agencies, States, local governments, 
or private organizations to provide temporary hous-
ing as needed and available. 
‘‘(3) In project areas where Corps participants 
can reasonably be expected to reside at their own 
homes, the Secretary may fund or provide transpor-
tation to and from project sites.’’. 
(4) By redesignating subsection (d) as subsection 
(g). 
(5) By inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(d) FACILITIES.—The Secretary may, as an appro-
priate natural and cultural resources conservation project, 
direct Corps participants to aid in the rehabilitation or 
construction of residential conservation center facilities, in-
cluding housing. 
‘‘(e) GREEN BUILDINGS.—The Secretary may seek the 
assistance of the Secretary of Energy in identifying and 
using solar and other green building technologies and mod-
ular housing designs that may be adapted for residential 
conservation center facilities, including— 
‘‘(1) designs from the Department of Energy’s 
Solar Decathlon competition; and 
‘‘(2) logistical support, assistance, and training 
from Solar Decathlon participants. 
‘‘(f) MENTORS.—The Secretary may recruit from pro-
grams, such as agency volunteer programs, and from agency 
retirees, veterans groups, military retirees, active duty per-
sonnel, and from appropriate youth-serving organizations, 
such adults as may be suitable and qualified to provide 
training, mentoring, and crew-leading services to Corps 
participants.’’. 
(6) In subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘are appropriate to carry out this title’’ and 
inserting ‘‘the Secretary determines to be necessary 
for the residential conservation center’’. 
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(g) RESOURCE ASSISTANTS
AND CONSULTING IN-
TERNS.—Section 206 of the Act is amended as follows: 
(1) In the section heading, by inserting ‘‘AND 
CONSULTING INTERNS’’ before the period. 
(2) In subsection (a), by striking ‘‘The Secretary 
is authorized to provide individual placements of re-
source’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘The Secretary is 
authorized, to provide individual placements of the 
following: 
‘‘(1) Resource’’. 
(3) By inserting after subsection (a)(1) (as so 
designated), the following: 
‘‘(2) Consulting interns with any Federal land, 
coastal, or ocean management agency under the juris-
diction of the Secretary to carry out management 
analysis activities on behalf of the agency. To be eligi-
ble for selection as a consulting intern, an individual 
must be a current enrollee and have completed at 
least one full year at a graduate or professional school 
that has been accredited by an accrediting body that 
has been recognized by the Secretary of Education. 
The Secretary may select consulting interns without 
regard to the civil service and classification laws, 
rules, or regulations of the United States.’’. 
(4) In subsection (b)— 
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(A) by inserting ‘‘or consulting interns’’ be-
fore ‘‘through private sources’’; 
(B) in the second sentence, before the period, 
by inserting ‘‘; up to 15 percent may be in- 
kind’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘Resource Assistants’’ and 
inserting ‘‘resource assistants or consulting in-
terns’’. 
(5) By adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) COST SHARING REQUIREMENTS.—At the Sec-
retary’s discretion, the requirements for cost sharing appli-
cable to participating nonprofit organizations for the ex-
penses of resource assistants and consulting interns under 
subsection (b) may be reduced to not less than 10 percent.’’. 
(h) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The Act is amended by 
redesignating sections 207, 208, 209, 210, and 211 as sec-
tions 208, 209, 210, 211, and 212, respectively. 
(i) GUIDANCE.—The Act is amended by inserting after 
section 206 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 207. GUIDANCE. 
‘‘Not later than 18 months after funds are made avail-
able for this purpose, the Secretaries shall issue guidelines 
for the management of the Public Lands Service Corps pro-
grams for use by regional and State directors, and the su-
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pervisors of individual parks, forests, districts, sanctuaries, 
reserves, hatcheries, and refuges.’’. 
(j) LIVING ALLOWANCES AND TERMS OF SERVICE.— 
Section 208 of the Act (as so redesignated) is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) LIVING ALLOWANCES.—The Secretary shall pro-
vide each Corps participant with a living allowance in an 
amount established by the Secretary. The Secretary may— 
‘‘(1) apply a cost-of-living differential to such al-
lowances; and 
‘‘(2) reimburse Corps participants for travel 
costs at the beginning and end of their term of service 
if the Secretary deems appropriate.’’; 
(2) by amending the text of subsection (b) to 
read as follows: ‘‘Each Corp participant shall agree 
to participate in the Corps for such term of service 
as may be established by the Secretary enrolling or se-
lecting the individual.’’; 
(3) in the heading of subsection (c), by adding 
at the end ‘‘PREFERENCE
AND FUTURE EMPLOY-
MENT’’; and 
(4) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by amending paragraphs (1) and (2) to 
read as follows: 
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‘‘(1) grant to a participant of the Public Lands 
Service Corps credit for service time in the Corps to 
be used as qualifying experience toward future Fed-
eral hiring; 
‘‘(2) provide to a former participant of the Pub-
lic Lands Service Corps noncompetitive hiring status 
for a period of not more than two years after the date 
on which the participant’s service with the Public 
Lands Service Corps is complete (not counting any 
time spent enrolled in an academic institution or 
trade school), if the candidate— 
‘‘(A) has served a minimum of 960 hours on 
an appropriate natural or cultural resource con-
servation project that included at least 120 hours 
through the Public Lands Service Corps; and 
‘‘(B) meets Office of Personnel Management 
qualification standards for the position to which 
the candidate is applying;’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) develop a system to provide consideration 
for participants who cannot meet the requirements of 
paragraph (2); 
‘‘(4) provide to an individual who has success-
fully fulfilled the resource assistant program non-
competitive hiring status for a period of not more 
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than two years after the date on which the individual 
has completed an undergraduate degree from an ac-
credited institution; 
‘‘(5) provide to an individual who has success-
fully fulfilled the consulting internship program non-
competitive hiring status for a period of not more 
than two years after the date on which the individual 
has completed a graduate degree from an accredited 
institution; and 
‘‘(6) provide, or enter into cooperative agree-
ments with qualified employment agencies to provide, 
alumni services such as job and education counseling, 
referrals, verification of service, communications, and 
other appropriate services to participants who have 
completed their Corps service.’’. 
(k) NATIONAL SERVICE EDUCATIONAL AWARDS.—Sec-
tion 209 of the Act (as so redesignated) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘If a’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘shall be eligible’’ and inserting 
‘‘If a Corps participant also serves in an approved 
national service position designated under subtitle C 
of title I of the National and Community Service Act 
of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.), the Corps partici-
pant shall be eligible’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking— 
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(A) ‘‘either participants in the Corps or re-
source assistants’’ and inserting ‘‘participants in 
the Corps’’ ; and 
(B) ‘‘or a resource assistant’’. 
(l) NONDISPLACEMENT.—Section 210 of the Act (as so 
redesignated) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 210. NONDISPLACEMENT. 
‘‘The nondisplacement requirements of the National 
and Community Service Act of 1990 shall be applicable to 
all activities carried out by the Public Lands Service Corps 
participants.’’. 
(m) FUNDING.—Section 211 of the Act (as so redesig-
nated) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘appropriate conservation 
project’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘ap-
propriate natural and cultural resources con-
servation project’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘The Secretary may reduce to no less than 10 
percent the non-Federal costs of a project when 
the Secretary determines that it is necessary to 
enable participation in the Public Lands Service 
Corps from a greater range of organizations.’’; 
and 
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(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘program’’ after ‘‘Corps’’; 
and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, consulting interns’’ be-
fore ‘‘and qualified youth’’. 
(n) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
212 of the Act (as so redesignated) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘to the Sec-
retary’’ after ‘‘authorized to be appropriated’’; 
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘to carry out’’ 
the first place it appears and all that follows through 
the period and inserting ‘‘such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out this title.’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (b); and 
(4) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection 
(b). 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to amend the 
Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authoriza-
tion of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the 
Interior to provide service opportunities for young Ameri-
cans; help restore the nation’s natural, cultural, historic, 
archaeological, recreational and scenic resources; train a 
new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts; 
and promote the value of public service.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 177 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1612 
[Report No. 111–312, Part I] 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to 
expand the authorization of the Secretaries of 
Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to pro-
vide service-learning opportunities on public 
lands, help restore the Nation’s natural, cultural, 
historic, archaeological, recreational, and scenic 
resources, train a new generation of public land 
managers and enthusiasts, and promote the value 
of public service. 
OCTOBER 23, 2009 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with 
amendments 
OCTOBER 23, 2009 
Committees on Agriculture and Education and Labor dis-
charged; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be 
printed 
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