I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2206 
To authorize the President to reestablish the Civilian Conservation Corps 
as a means of providing gainful employment to unemployed and under-
employed citizens of the United States through the performance of useful 
public work, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2017 
Ms. KAPTUR (for herself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. POCAN, Ms. MOORE, Ms. LEE, 
Ms. NORTON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. EVANS, Mr. CON-
YERS, Mr. PERLMUTTER, and Mr. MCNERNEY) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Work-
force 
A BILL 
To authorize the President to reestablish the Civilian Con-
servation Corps as a means of providing gainful employ-
ment to unemployed and underemployed citizens of the 
United States through the performance of useful public 
work, 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 ‘‘21st Century Civilian 
Conservation Corps Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF CIVILIAN 
CONSERVATION CORPS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.—In order to re-
lieve the acute condition of widespread distress and unem-
ployment existing in the United States and to provide for 
the restoration of depleted natural resources in the United 
States and the advancement of an orderly program of use-
ful public works, the President may establish and operate 
a Civilian Conservation Corps to employ citizens of the 
United States, who are otherwise unemployed or under-
employed, in the construction, maintenance, and carrying 
on of works of a public nature in connection with— 
(1) the forestation of lands belonging to the 
United States or a State; 
(2) the prevention of forest fires, floods, and 
soil erosion; 
(3) plant pest and disease control; 
(4) the construction, maintenance, or repair of 
paths, trails, and fire-lanes in units of the National 
Park System, public lands, and other lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and 
units of the National Forest System; and 
(5) such other work on Federal or State land 
incidental to or necessary in connection with any 
projects of the character enumerated in paragraphs 
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(1) through (4) that the President determines to be 
desirable. 
(b) ROLE OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—To operate the 
Civilian Conservation Corps, the President may utilize ex-
isting Federal departments and agencies, including the 
Department of Labor, the Department of Defense, the 
National Guard Bureau, the Department of the Interior, 
the Department of Agriculture, the Army Corps of Engi-
neers, the Department of Transportation, the Department 
of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and 
Federal governmental corporations. 
(c) INCLUSION OF OTHER LANDS.—The President 
may extend the activities of the Civilian Conservation 
Corps to lands owned by a political subdivision of a State 
and lands in private ownership, but only for the purpose 
of conducting such kinds of cooperation work as are other-
wise authorized by law in preventing and controlling forest 
fires and the attacks of forest tree pests and diseases and 
such work as is necessary and in the public interest to 
control floods. 
(d) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—For the purpose of car-
rying out this Act, the President may enter into such con-
tracts or agreements with States as may be necessary, in-
cluding provisions for utilization of existing State adminis-
trative agencies. 
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(e) ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY.—The Presi-
dent, or the head of any department or agency authorized 
by the President to construct any project or to carry on 
any public works under this Act, may acquire real prop-
erty for such project or public work by purchase, donation, 
condemnation, or otherwise. 
SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATION OF CIVILIAN CONSERVATION 
CORPS. 
(a) EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE.—If the President 
determines that amounts appropriated to carry out a Civil-
ian Conservation Corps under this Act for a fiscal year 
will be insufficient to employ all of the citizens of the 
United States described in section 2(a) who are seeking 
or likely to seek employment in the Civilian Conservation 
Corps and continue the employment of current employees 
who desire to remain in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 
the President shall employ additional persons in the Civil-
ian Conservation Corps in the following order of pref-
erence: 
(1) Unemployed veterans of the Armed Forces 
and unemployed members of the reserve components 
of the Armed Forces. 
(2) Unemployed citizens who have exhausted 
their entitlement to unemployment compensation. 
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(3) Unemployed citizens, who immediately be-
fore employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 
are eligible for unemployment compensation payable 
under any State law or Federal unemployment com-
pensation law, including any additional compensa-
tion or extended compensation under such laws. 
(4) Other citizens described in section 2(a). 
(b) HOUSING
AND CARE
OF EMPLOYEES.—The 
President may provide housing for persons employed in 
the Civilian Conservation Corps and furnish them with 
such subsistence, clothing, medical attendance and hos-
pitalization, and cash allowance, as may be necessary, dur-
ing the period they are so employed. 
(c) TRANSPORTATION.—The President may provide 
for the transportation of persons employed in the Civilian 
Conservation Corps to and from the places of employment. 
(d) NON-DISCRIMINATION.—In employing citizens 
for the Civilian Conservation Corps, no discrimination 
shall occur in accordance with Federal employment law; 
except that no individual under conviction for crime and 
serving sentence therefore shall be employed under the 
provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the President 
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$16,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 
2021 to establish and operate a Civilian Conservation 
Corps under this Act. 
(b) USE OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS APPROPRIATED 
FOR PUBLIC WORKS.— 
(1) USE OF EXISTING FUNDS.—The President 
may use any moneys previously appropriated for 
public works and unobligated as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act to establish and operate a Ci-
vilian Conservation Corps under this Act. 
(2) USE
TO
RELIEVE
UNEMPLOYMENT.—Not 
less than 80 percent of the funds utilized pursuant 
to paragraph (1) must be used to provide for the 
employment of individuals under this Act. 
(3) EXCEPTIONS.—Paragraph (1) does not 
apply to— 
(A) unobligated moneys appropriated for 
public works on which actual construction has 
been commenced as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act or may be commenced within 
90 days after that date; and 
(B) maintenance funds for river and har-
bor improvements already allocated as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
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(c) DURATION OF AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in 
subsection (a) or made available under subsection (b) shall 
remain available until expended. 
SEC. 5. TERMINATION. 
The authority of the President to establish and oper-
ate a Civilian Conservation Corps under this Act expires 
on September 30, 2021. 
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