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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2863 
To provide for consistent and reliable authority and funding to meet conserva-
tion and deferred maintenance needs affecting lands under the adminis-
trative jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and the Department 
of Agriculture, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 8, 2017 
Mr. SIMPSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the 
Budget, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for consistent and reliable authority and funding 
to meet conservation and deferred maintenance needs 
affecting lands under the administrative jurisdiction of 
the Department of the Interior and the Department of 
Agriculture, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Land and National 
Park Deferred Maintenance Act’’ or the ‘‘LAND Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND. 
(a) REAUTHORIZATION.—Section 200302 of title 54, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘September 30, 2018,’’ 
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (1) of subsection (c), by strik-
ing ‘‘September 30, 2018’’, and inserting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2024’’. 
(b) FUNDING.—Section 200303 of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 200303. Funding 
‘‘(a) FUNDING FOR FISCAL YEARS 2018 THROUGH 
2024.—From amounts covered into the fund under sec-
tion 200302 of this chapter— 
‘‘(1) $450,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be 
available for expenditure to carry out the purposes 
of this Act, without further appropriation or fiscal 
year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the 
Fund (including accounts and programs made avail-
able from the Fund under the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115–31)); and 
‘‘(2) the remainder of amounts covered into the 
fund shall be available subject to appropriations, 
which may be made without fiscal year limitation. 
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‘‘(b) USES.—Amounts made available for obligation 
or expenditure from the fund may be obligated or ex-
pended only as provided in this chapter.’’. 
(c) ALLOCATION
AND USES
OF FUNDS.—Section 
200304 of title 54, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘There’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) IN 
GENERAL.—There’’; and 
(2) by striking the second sentence and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION.—Of amounts appropriated or ex-
pended from the Fund— 
‘‘(1) $180,000,000 shall be used for Federal 
purposes under section 200306; 
‘‘(2) $220,000,000 shall be used— 
‘‘(A) to provide financial assistance to 
States under section 200305; 
‘‘(B) for the Forest Legacy Program es-
tablished under section 7 of the Cooperative 
Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
2103c); 
‘‘(C) for the American Battlefield Protec-
tion Program established under chapter 3081; 
and 
‘‘(D) for cooperative endangered species 
grants authorized under section 6 of the En-
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dangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1535); and 
‘‘(3) remaining appropriations or expenditures 
shall be used for activities described under para-
graphs (1) and (2). 
‘‘(c) PRIORITIES.—The President shall, as part of the 
President’s annual budget submission to Congress, submit 
to Congress detailed account, program, and project alloca-
tions for funds made available under paragraph (b)(1). 
Acts of appropriation may provide alternate allocations for 
such amounts. 
‘‘(d) PROHIBITION ON USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.— 
No funds made available to a State under this Act may 
be used for the acquisition of land, water, or an interest 
in land or water by eminent domain.’’. 
(d) RECREATION ACCESS.—Section 200306 of title 
54, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(c) PUBLIC ACCESS.—Not less than 1.5 percent of 
amounts appropriated or expended under this chapter in 
each fiscal year shall be made available for the fiscal year 
for projects that secure recreational public access to exist-
ing Federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other rec-
reational purposes.’’. 
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