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(A) includes the District of Columbia; and 
(B) to the extent practicable, as determined by the Sec-
retary, includes Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. 
§ 200103. Authority of Secretary to carry out certain func-
tions and activities 
(a) IN GENERAL.—To carry out this chapter, the Secretary may 
perform the functions and activities described in this section. 
(b) INVENTORY AND EVALUATION.—The Secretary may prepare 
and maintain a continuing inventory and evaluation of outdoor 
recreation needs and resources of the United States. 
(c) CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.—The Secretary may prepare a system 
for classification of outdoor recreation resources to assist in the 
effective and beneficial use and management of such resources. 
(d) RECREATION PLAN.—The Secretary may formulate and main-
tain a comprehensive nationwide outdoor recreation plan, taking 
into consideration the plans of the various Federal agencies, States, 
and their political subdivisions. The plan shall set forth the needs 
and demands of the public for outdoor recreation and the current 
and foreseeable availability in the future of outdoor recreation 
resources to meet those needs. The plan shall identify critical out-
door recreation problems, recommend solutions, and recommend 
desirable actions to be taken at each level of government and 
by private interests. The Secretary shall submit the plan to the 
President for transmittal to Congress. Revisions of the plan shall 
be similarly transmitted at succeeding 5-year intervals. When a 
plan or revision is transmitted to the Congress, the Secretary shall 
transmit copies to the chief executive officials of the States. 
(e) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE.—The Secretary may pro-
vide technical assistance and advice to and cooperate with States, 
political subdivisions, and private interests, including nonprofit 
organizations, with respect to outdoor recreation. 
(f) INTERSTATE AND REGIONAL COOPERATION.—The Secretary may 
encourage interstate and regional cooperation in the planning, 
acquisition, and development of outdoor recreation resources. 
(g) RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS
AND 
ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary may— 
(1) sponsor, engage in, and assist in research relating to 
outdoor recreation, directly or by contract or cooperative agree-
ments, and make payments for such purposes without regard 
to the limitations of section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 concerning 
advances of funds when the Secretary considers such action 
to be in the public interest; 
(2) undertake studies and assemble information concerning 
outdoor recreation, directly or by contract or cooperative agree-
ment, and disseminate the information without regard to sec-
tion 3204 of title 39; and 
(3) cooperate with educational institutions and others to 
assist in establishing education programs and activities and 
to encourage public use and benefits from outdoor recreation. 
(h) COOPERATION AND COORDINATION WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may— 
(A) cooperate with and provide technical assistance to 
Federal agencies and obtain from them information, data, 
reports, advice, and assistance that are needed and can
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reasonably be furnished in carrying out the purposes of 
this chapter; and 
(B) promote coordination of Federal plans and activities 
generally relating to outdoor recreation. 
(2) FUNDING.—An agency furnishing advice or assistance 
under this paragraph may expend its own funds for those 
purposes, with or without reimbursement, as may be agreed 
to by that agency. 
(i) DONATIONS.—The Secretary may accept and use donations 
of money, property, personal services, or facilities for the purposes 
of this chapter. 
§ 200104. Consultations of Secretary with administrative offi-
cers; execution of administrative responsibilities 
in conformity with nationwide plan 
To carry out the policy declared in section 200101 of this title, 
the heads of Federal agencies having administrative responsibility 
over activities or resources the conduct or use of which is pertinent 
to fulfillment of that policy shall, individually or as a group— 
(1) consult with and be consulted by the Secretary from 
time to time both with respect to their conduct of those activities 
and their use of those resources and with respect to the activi-
ties that the Secretary carries on under authority of this chapter 
that are pertinent to their work; and 
(2) carry out that responsibility in general conformance with 
the nationwide plan authorized under section 200103(d) of this 
title. 
Chapter 2003—Land and Water 
Conservation Fund 
Sec. 
200301.
Definitions. 
200302.
Establishment of Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
200303.
Appropriations for expenditure of Fund amounts. 
200304.
Statement of estimated requirements. 
200305.
Financial assistance to States. 
200306.
Allocation of Fund amounts for Federal purposes. 
200307.
Availability of Fund amounts for publicity purposes. 
200308.
Contracts for acquisition of land and water. 
200309.
Contracts for options to acquire land and water in System. 
200310.
Transfers to and from Fund. 
§ 200301. Definitions 
In this chapter: 
(1) FUND.—The term ‘‘Fund’’ means the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund established under section 200302 of this 
title. 
(2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means a State, the District 
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin 
Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. 
§ 200302. Establishment of Land and Water Conservation 
Fund 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the Treasury the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
(b) DEPOSITS.—During the period ending September 30, 2015, 
there shall be deposited in the Fund the following revenues and 
collections:
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(1) All proceeds (except so much thereof as may be otherwise 
obligated, credited, or paid under authority of the provisions 
of law set forth in section 572(a) or 574(a) to (c) of title 40 
or under authority of any appropriation Act that appropriates 
an amount, to be derived from proceeds from the transfer 
of excess property and the disposal of surplus property, for 
necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the 
utilization and disposal of excess and surplus property) received 
from any disposal of surplus real property and related personal 
property under chapter 5 of title 40, notwithstanding any provi-
sion of law that such proceeds shall be credited to miscellaneous 
receipts of the Treasury. Nothing in this chapter shall affect 
existing laws or regulations concerning disposal of real or per-
sonal surplus property to schools, hospitals, and States and 
their political subdivisions. 
(2) The amounts provided for in section 200310 of this title. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to the sum of the revenues 
and collections estimated by the Secretary to be deposited in 
the Fund pursuant to this section, there are authorized to 
be appropriated annually to the Fund out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated such amounts as are 
necessary to make the income of the Fund not less than 
$900,000,000 for each fiscal year through September 30, 2015. 
(2) RECEIPTS UNDER OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS ACT.— 
To the extent that amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) 
are not sufficient to make the total annual income of the 
Fund equivalent to the amounts provided in paragraph (1), 
an amount sufficient to cover the remainder shall be credited 
to the Fund from revenues due and payable to the United 
States for deposit in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts 
under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 
et seq.). 
(3) AVAILABILITY
OF
DEPOSITS.—Notwithstanding section 
200303 of this title, money deposited in the Fund under this 
subsection shall remain in the Fund until appropriated by 
Congress to carry out this chapter. 
§ 200303. Appropriations for expenditure of Fund amounts 
Amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available for expenditure 
for the purposes of this chapter only when appropriated for those 
purposes. The appropriations may be made without fiscal-year 
limitation. Amounts made available for obligation or expenditure 
from the Fund may be obligated or expended only as provided 
in this chapter. 
§ 200304. Statement of estimated requirements 
There shall be submitted with the annual budget of the United 
States a comprehensive statement of estimated requirements during 
the ensuing fiscal year for appropriations from the Fund. Not less 
than 40 percent of such appropriations shall be available for Federal 
purposes. 
§ 200305. Financial assistance to States 
(a) AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY TO MAKE PAYMENTS.—The Sec-
retary may provide financial assistance to the States from amounts 
available for State purposes. Payments may be made to the States
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by the Secretary as provided in this section, subject to such terms 
and conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate and in the 
public interest to carry out the purposes of this chapter, for outdoor 
recreation: 
(1) Planning. 
(2) Acquisition of land, water, or interests in land or water. 
(3) Development. 
(b) APPORTIONMENT AMONG STATES.—Amounts appropriated and 
available for State purposes for each fiscal year shall be apportioned 
among the States by the Secretary, whose determination shall 
be final, in accordance with the following formula: 
(1) Forty percent of the 1st $225,000,000; 30 percent of the 
next $275,000,000; and 20 percent of all additional appropria-
tions shall be apportioned equally among the States. 
(2) At any time, the remaining appropriation shall be appor-
tioned on the basis of need to individual States by the Secretary 
in such amounts as in the Secretary’s judgment will best accom-
plish the purposes of this chapter. The determination of need 
shall include consideration of—– 
(A) the proportion that the population of each State 
bears to the total population of the United States; 
(B) the use of outdoor recreation resources of each State 
by persons from outside the State; and 
(C) the Federal resources and programs in each State. 
(3) The total allocation to a State under paragraphs (1) and 
(2) shall not exceed 10 percent of the total amount allocated 
to all of the States in any one year. 
(4) The Secretary shall notify each State of its apportion-
ments. The amounts shall be available for payment to the 
State for planning, acquisition, or development projects as pre-
scribed. Any amount of any apportionment that has not been 
paid or obligated by the Secretary during the fiscal year in 
which the notification is given and for 2 fiscal years thereafter 
shall be reapportioned by the Secretary in accordance with 
paragraph (2) without regard to the 10 percent limitation to 
an individual State specified in this subsection. 
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin 
Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands shall be deemed 
to be one State, and shall receive shares of the apportionment 
in proportion to their populations. 
(c) MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.—Payments to any State shall cover 
not more than 50 percent of the cost of planning, acquisition, 
or development projects that are undertaken by the State. The 
remaining share of the cost shall be borne by the State in a 
manner and with funds or services as shall be satisfactory to 
the Secretary. 
(d) COMPREHENSIVE STATE PLAN.— 
(1) REQUIRED
FOR
CONSIDERATION
OF
FINANCIAL
ASSIST-
ANCE.—A comprehensive statewide outdoor recreation plan 
shall be required prior to the consideration by the Secretary 
of financial assistance for acquisition or development projects. 
The plan shall be adequate if, in the judgment of the Secretary, 
it encompasses and will promote the purposes of this chapter. 
No plan shall be approved unless the chief executive official 
of the State certifies that ample opportunity for public participa-
tion in plan development and revision has been accorded. The