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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. 
‘‘§ 200401. Definitions 
‘‘In this chapter: 
‘‘(1) ASSET.—The term ‘asset’ means any real property, 
including any physical structure or grouping of structures, land-
scape, 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 sec-
tion 200402(a). 
‘‘(4) PROJECT.—The term ‘project’ means any activity to 
reduce or eliminate deferred maintenance of an asset, which
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may include resolving directly related infrastructure defi-
ciencies of the asset that would not by itself be classified 
as deferred maintenance. 
‘‘§ 200402. National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
tion 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 estab-
lished 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 para-
graph (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 Sec-
retary of the Treasury, taking into consideration current 
market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of 
the United States of comparable maturity.
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‘‘(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 Manage-
ment, 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 Appropria-
tions 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.