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Union Calendar No. 862 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2987 
[Report No. 115–1066, Part I] 
To amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to establish the 21st Century 
Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans in national 
service positions to conserve, restore, and enhance the great outdoors 
of the United States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 21, 2017 
Ms. MCSALLY (for herself, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. TIPTON, and Mr. GRIJALVA) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Education and 
the Workforce, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and En-
ergy and Commerce, 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 
DECEMBER 6, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
DECEMBER 6, 2018 
Committees on Agriculture and Energy and Commerce discharged 
DECEMBER 6, 2018 
Referral to the Committees on Education and the Workforce and Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure extended for a period ending not later than De-
cember 28, 2018 
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DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. GIANFORTE, Mr. 
WELCH, Ms. KUSTER
of New Hampshire, Ms. HANABUSA, Mrs. 
RADEWAGEN, Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mr. PEARCE, Ms. MICHELLE 
LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Mr. PETERSON, Ms. ESTY of Con-
necticut, Mr. KHANNA, and Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Committees on Education and the Workforce and Transportation and Infra-
structure discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 21, 2017] 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to establish 
the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps to place 
youth and veterans in national service positions to con-
serve, restore, and enhance the great outdoors of the 
United States, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘21st Century Conserva-
tion Service Corps Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
Section 202 of the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 
(16 U.S.C. 1721) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 202. PURPOSES. 
‘‘The purposes of this title are— 
‘‘(1) to engage youth and veterans in the United 
States in civilian national service positions to con-
serve, rebuild, and enhance the outdoors, natural re-
sources, infrastructure, and recreation assets of the 
United States; 
‘‘(2) to increase public access to, and use of, pub-
lic and tribal land and water, infrastructure, and 
natural, cultural, and historical resources and treas-
ures, while spurring economic development and out-
door recreation and addressing backlogged mainte-
nance on public land; 
‘‘(3) to conserve, restore, and enhance public and 
tribal land and water, infrastructure, and natural, 
cultural, and historical resources and treasures by 
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