wildlife conservation needs identified by State fish 
and wildlife agencies, including for species that are 
not hunted or fished, but only authorized appropria-
tions for the Subaccount for one year. 
(12) While appropriated funds have been made 
available through the State and Tribal Wildlife 
Grants program of the United States Fish and Wild-
life Service, the lack of assured and sufficient dedi-
cated funding for the Wildlife Conservation and Res-
toration Subaccount has left unrealized the goals of 
the Subaccount, thereby allowing fish and wildlife 
populations to continue to decline across the United 
States and resulting in hundreds of species being 
listed as threatened species or endangered species 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 
(13) Under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife 
Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669 et seq.), each State 
and territory is required to seek public input and 
produce a comprehensive fish and wildlife conserva-
tion strategy, otherwise known as a State Wildlife 
Action Plan, to guide the State-led conservation of 
the full array of fish, wildlife, and their habitats. 
(14) Providing assured and sufficient dedicated 
funding to the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration 
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Subaccount will advance the national interest by as-
suring sustainable populations of fish and wildlife 
species are available for the use and enjoyment of 
citizens of the United States through implementing 
the comprehensive fish and wildlife conservation 
strategy of each State and territory. 
(15) As funds become available for the purposes 
of this Act, sportsmen and sportswomen expect 
States to secure the needed non-Federal match from 
sources other than revenue generated by sportsmen 
and sportswomen through the sale of State hunting 
and fishing licenses (except when projects or pro-
grams benefit habitat for species that are hunted or 
fished and other associated wildlife). 
SEC. 3. WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION SUB-
ACCOUNT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3 of the Pittman-Robert-
son Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669b) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(1) An amount equal to’’ 
and inserting ‘‘An amount equal to’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘(c)(1) Amounts trans-
ferred to the Wildlife Conservation and Res-
toration Account’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(c) WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION 
SUBACCOUNT.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF SUBACCOUNT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—There is established in 
the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Fund a 
subaccount to be known as the ‘Wildlife Con-
servation and Restoration Subaccount’ (referred 
to in this subsection as the ‘Subaccount’). 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts in the Sub-
account shall be available without further ap-
propriation, for each fiscal year, for apportion-
ment in accordance with this Act. 
‘‘(C) DEPOSITS INTO SUBACCOUNT.—Be-
ginning in fiscal year 2018, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall transfer to the fund for deposit 
in the Subaccount the following: 
‘‘(i) OUTER
CONTINENTAL
SHELF 
REVENUES.—From amounts deposited in 
the Treasury under section 9 of the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1338), $650,000,000. 
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‘‘(ii) 
MINING
REVENUES.—From 
amounts deposited in the Treasury under 
section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 191), after the withdrawal of funds 
to the States under subsection (a) of that 
section, $650,000,000. 
‘‘(2) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Amounts 
transferred to the Wildlife Conservation and Res-
toration Subaccount’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), as added by sub-
paragraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘wildlife restoration ac-
count and’’ and inserting ‘‘wildlife restora-
tion account.’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘shall be used for the 
development,’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘existing programs and projects.’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(3) USE
OF
FUNDS.—Funds appropriated 
from the Subaccount— 
‘‘(A) shall be used to carry out, revise, or 
enhance existing wildlife conservation and res-
toration programs and to develop and imple-
ment new wildlife conservation and restoration 
programs to manage wildlife species of greatest 
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conservation need, including species that are 
not hunted or fished, and their habitats as de-
termined by the appropriate State fish and 
wildlife department; 
‘‘(B) shall be used to develop, revise and 
implement a wildlife conservation strategy of 
the State as may be required by this Act; 
‘‘(C) shall be used for wildlife conservation 
education and wildlife-associated recreation 
projects; 
‘‘(D) may be used to assist in the recovery 
of a species listed as an endangered species or 
threatened species under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); 
‘‘(E) may be used to manage a species of 
greatest conservation need whose range is 
shared with a foreign government and the habi-
tat of such species; 
‘‘(F) may be used to manage, control, and 
prevent invasive and nuisance species and other 
risks to species of greatest conservation need; 
and 
‘‘(G) may be used for law enforcement ac-
tivities that are directly related to the protec-
tion and conservation of a species of greatest 
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conservation need and the habitat of such spe-
cies.’’; 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) PUBLIC ACCESS NOT REQUIRED.—Funds 
apportioned from the Wildlife Conservation and Res-
toration Subaccount shall not be conditioned upon 
the provision of public access to private lands, 
waters, or holdings. 
‘‘(5) REQUIREMENTS FOR MATCHING FUNDS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes of 
the non-Federal fund matching requirement for 
a wildlife conservation or restoration program 
or project funded by the Wildlife Conservation 
Restoration Subaccount, a State— 
‘‘(i) may use as matching non-Federal 
funds— 
‘‘(I) funds from Federal agencies 
other than the Department of the In-
terior and the Department of Agri-
culture; and 
‘‘(II) donated private lands and 
waters, 
including 
privately-owned 
easements; and 
‘‘(ii) may not use as matching non- 
Federal funds— 
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‘‘(I) revenue from the sale of 
State hunting and fishing licenses, ex-
cept if all available Federal funds ap-
portioned to a State fish and wildlife 
agency from the Wildlife Restoration 
Program or the Sport Fish Restora-
tion Program have been obligated by 
the State, then revenue generated 
through the sale of State hunting and 
fishing licenses may be used as non- 
Federal match for projects and pro-
grams that benefit the habitat of spe-
cies that are hunted or fished and 
other species that have greatest con-
servation need. 
‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this 
subsection— 
‘‘(A) 
WILDLIFE.—The 
term 
‘wildlife’ 
means any species of wild, freeranging fauna, 
including fish, and also fauna in captive breed-
ing programs the object of which is to reintro-
duce individuals of a depleted indigenous spe-
cies into previously occupied range.’’; 
(D) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 
(3) as paragraphs (7) and (8), respectively; and 
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(E) in paragraph (2), as redesignated by 
subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘or an Indian 
tribe’’. 
(b) ALLOCATION AND APPORTIONMENT OF AVAIL-
ABLE AMOUNTS.—Section 4 of the Pittman-Robertson 
Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669c) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(2)(A)— 
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘one-third’’ 
and inserting ‘‘one-half’’; and 
(B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘two-thirds’’ 
and inserting ‘‘one-half’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end following: 
‘‘(e) MINIMIZATION
OF PLANNING
AND REPORT-
ING.—Nothing in this Act shall be interpreted to require 
a State to create a comprehensive strategy related to con-
servation education or outdoor recreation.’’. 
SEC. 4. CLARIFYING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2 of the Pittman-Robert-
son Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669a) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking paragraph (4); 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (5) through 
(8) as paragraphs (4) through (7), respectively; and 
(3) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated by 
paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘Indian Tribes, aca-
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demic institutions,’’ before ‘‘wildlife conservation or-
ganizations’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—The Pittman-Rob-
ertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669a et seq.) 
is amended— 
(1) in section 3 (16 U.S.C. 669b)— 
(A) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ‘‘Ac-
count’’ and inserting ‘‘Subaccount’’; and 
(B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘Ac-
count’’ and inserting ‘‘Subaccount’’; 
(2) in section 4 (16 U.S.C. 669c)— 
(A) in subsection (c)— 
(i) in the subsection heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘ACCOUNT’’ and inserting ‘‘SUB-
ACCOUNT’’; 
(ii) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘Account’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Subaccount’’; 
(iii) in the matter preceding para-
graph (2)(A)(i), by striking ‘‘Account’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Subaccount’’; and 
(iv) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘Ac-
count’’ and inserting ‘‘Subaccount’’; and 
(B) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘Ac-
count’’ and inserting ‘‘Subaccount’’; and 
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(3) in section 8 (16 U.S.C. 669g), in subsection 
(a), by striking ‘‘Account’’ and inserting ‘‘Sub-
account’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 4 of the 
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 
669c) is amended— 
(1) in the second subsection (c), by striking 
‘‘(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)’’; and 
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e). 
SEC. 5. SAVINGS CLAUSE. 
The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 
U.S.C. 669 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 13 as section 14; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 12 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 13. SAVINGS CLAUSE. 
‘‘Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the 
authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of a State to man-
age, control, or regulate fish and wildlife under the law 
and regulations of the State on lands and waters within 
the State, including on Federal lands and waters. 
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‘‘SEC. 14. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION WITH RESPECT TO 
ALASKA. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued to affect— 
‘‘(1) the provisions for subsistence uses in Alas-
ka set forth in the Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), including 
the such provisions in titles III and VIII of that Act; 
‘‘(2) the provisions of section 102 of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), the jurisdiction over subsist-
ence uses in Alaska, or any assertion of subsistence 
uses in Alaska in the Federal courts; or 
‘‘(3) the manner in which section 810 of the 
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
(16 U.S.C. 3120) is implemented on Federal lands 
and waters in Alaska. 
‘‘(b) CONFLICTS OF LAWS.—If any conflict arises be-
tween any provision of this Act and any provision of the 
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), then the provision in the Alaska Na-
tional Interest Lands Conservation Act shall prevail.’’. 
Æ 
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