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‘‘(vi) projects under the Healthy For-
ests Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108–148); 
Projects under this subparagraph shall be con-
sidered priority projects; 
‘‘(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-
tory projects, documentary photography, and 
activities 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 
purposes 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: 
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‘‘(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, account-
ing, and management provided that the work 
experience directly relates to the protection and 
management of the public lands; and 
‘‘(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 
assign 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; 
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‘‘(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 
personal experience of the Corps participant for 
the purpose of promoting public awareness of 
the Corps, its role in public land management 
agencies, and its availability to potential partici-
pants; and 
‘‘(D) creating nonpersonal interpretive 
products, such as Web site content, Junior 
Ranger program books, printed handouts, and 
audiovisual 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 con-
servation project’’. 
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(8) By amending the text of subsection (f) (as 
so redesignated), by inserting ‘‘involve improvements 
to Federal property and’’ after ‘‘preference to those 
projects which’’. 
(9) 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;’’. 
(10) In subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘on eligible service lands’’. 
(11) 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.’’. 
(f) RESIDENTIAL
CONSERVATION
CENTERS
AND 
PROGRAM SUPPORT.—Section 205 of the Act is amended 
as follows: 
(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: 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may estab-
lish 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 redesig-
nated)— 
(i) in the text, by inserting ‘‘residen-
tial’’ before ‘‘conservation centers’’; and 
(ii) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘RES-
IDENTIAL’’ before ‘‘CONSERVATION
CEN-
TERS’’; 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 in-
serting the following: 
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‘‘(1) The Secretary’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may make arrangements 
with other Federal agencies, States, local, and tribal 
governments, or private organizations to provide 
temporary housing 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 sub-
section (g). 
(5) By inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(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, 
including 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 
modular housing designs that may be adapted for residen-
tial conservation center facilities, including— 
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‘‘(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 
programs, such as agency volunteer programs, and from 
agency retirees, veterans groups, military retirees, active 
duty personnel, and from appropriate youth-serving orga-
nizations, 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’’. 
(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 Sec-
retary is authorized to provide individual placements 
of resource’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘The Sec-
retary is authorized, to provide individual place-
ments of the following: 
‘‘(1) Resource’’. 
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(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 ju-
risdiction of the Secretary to carry out management 
analysis activities on behalf of the agency. To be eli-
gible for selection as a consulting intern, an indi-
vidual must be a current enrollee and have com-
pleted at least one full year at a graduate or profes-
sional school that has been accredited by an accred-
iting body that has been recognized by the Secretary 
of Education. The Secretary may select consulting 
interns without regard to the civil service and classi-
fication laws, rules, or regulations of the United 
States.’’. 
(4) In subsection (b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or consulting interns’’ 
before ‘‘through private sources’’; 
(B) in the second sentence, before the pe-
riod, 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: 
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‘‘(c) COST SHARING REQUIREMENTS.—At the Sec-
retary’s discretion, the requirements for cost sharing ap-
plicable 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 per-
cent.’’. 
(h) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The Act is amended 
by redesignating sections 207, 208, 209, 210, and 211 as 
sections 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 
available for this purpose, the Secretaries shall issue 
guidelines for the management of the Public Lands Serv-
ice Corps programs for use by regional and State direc-
tors, and the supervisors of individual parks, forests, dis-
tricts, 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 
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amount established by the Secretary. The Secretary 
may— 
‘‘(1) apply a cost-of-living differential to such 
allowances; and 
‘‘(2) reimburse Corps participants for travel 
costs at the beginning and end of their term of serv-
ice 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 
selecting 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: 
‘‘(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 
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date on which the participant’s service with the Pub-
lic 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 
conservation project that included at least 120 
hours through the Public Lands Service Corps; 
and 
‘‘(B) meets Office of Personnel Manage-
ment 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 
than two years after the date on which the indi-
vidual has completed an undergraduate degree from 
an accredited 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 
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than two years after the date on which the indi-
vidual has completed a graduate degree from an ac-
credited institution; and 
‘‘(6) provide, or enter into cooperative agree-
ments with qualified employment agencies to pro-
vide, alumni services such as job and education 
counseling, referrals, verification of service, commu-
nications, and other appropriate services to partici-
pants who have completed their Corps service.’’. 
(k) NATIONAL SERVICE EDUCATIONAL AWARDS.— 
Section 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 partic-
ipant shall be eligible’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking— 
(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: 
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‘‘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 redes-
ignated) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘appropriate conservation 
project’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘appropriate natural and cultural resources 
conservation 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 
(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— 
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(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this title $12,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, of which 
no less than 3⁄4 of the sums shall be made available for 
healthy forests restoration priority projects under section 
204(e)(1)(B)(vi).’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (b); and 
(3) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (b). 
(o) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—No person or 
entity who is a party to a pending lawsuit against the dis-
pensing Secretary is eligible to receive funds authorized 
or made available under this Act or amendments made 
by this Act. 
(p) FURTHER LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO 
PROTECT CHILDREN.—No adult shall be eligible to receive 
funds or participate in the Public Lands Service Corps 
program under this Act or amendments made by this Act, 
if that person— 
(1) refuses to consent to a criminal history 
check; 
(2) makes a false statement in connection with 
such a criminal history check; 
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(3) is registered, or is required to be registered, 
on a State sex offender registry or the National Sex 
Offender Registry established under the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 
U.S.C. 16901 et seq.); or 
(4) has been convicted of murder, as described 
in section 1111 of title 18, United States Code. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 20, 
2010. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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