term sustainable multiple use of Federal lands, the
Advisory Committee shall seek to ensure that revenues
and payments so generated will minimize adverse
budgetary effects and generate additional revenues,
wages, purchasing of goods and services, and other
economic and social benefits to and for States, coun-
ties, and schools.
(3) MONITORING AND REPORTING ACTIVITIES.—
The Advisory Committee shall monitor the payments
made to eligible States and eligible counties pursuant
to this Act and submit to the Senate committees of ju-
risdiction and the House committees of jurisdiction
an annual report describing the amounts and sources
of such payments and containing such comments as
the Advisory Committee may have regarding such
payments.
(4) TESTIMONY.—The Advisory Committee shall
make itself available for testimony or comments on
the reports required to be submitted by the Advisory
Committee and on any legislation or regulations to
implement any recommendations made in such re-
ports in any congressional hearings or any rule-
making or other administrative decision process.
(d) ORGANIZATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—
(1) CHAIRPERSON.—The Chairperson of the Ad-
visory Committee shall be selected from among the
members appointed pursuant to paragraphs (4) and
(5) of subsection (b).
(2) VACANCIES.—Any vacancy in the member-
ship of the Advisory Committee shall be filled in the
same manner as required by subsection (b). A va-
cancy shall not impair the right of the remaining
members to perform the functions authorized by sub-
section (c).
(3) COMPENSATION.—The members of the Advi-
sory Committee who are not officers or employees of
the United States, while attending meetings or other
events held by the Advisory Committee or at which
the members serve as representatives of the Advisory
Committee or while otherwise serving at the request of
the Chairperson, shall each be entitled to receive com-
pensation at a rate not in excess of the maximum
rate of pay for grade GS–18, as provided in the Gen-
eral Schedule under section 5532 of title 5, United
States Code, including traveltime, and while away
from their homes or regular places of business shall
each be reimbursed for travel expenses, including per
diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by section
5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in
Government service employed intermittently.
(4) GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION.—In making
appointments under paragraphs (4) and (5) of sub-
section (b), the President pro tempore of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall
seek to ensure that the Advisory Committee members
are selected from geographically diverse locations.
(e) STAFF AND RULES.—
(1) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall have an Executive Director, who shall be
appointed (without regard to the provisions of title 5,
United States Code, governing appointments in the
competitive service) by the Advisory Committee and
serve at the pleasure of the Advisory Committee. The
Executive Director shall report to the Advisory Com-
mittee and assume such duties as the Advisory Com-
mittee may assign. The Executive Director shall be
paid at a rate of pay for grade GS–18, as provided
in the General Schedule under 5332 of title 5, United
States Code.
(2) OTHER STAFF.—In addition to authority to
appoint personnel subject to the provisions of title 5,
United States Code, governing appointments to the
competitive service, and to pay such personnel in ac-
cordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and sub-
chapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to clas-
sification and General Schedule pay rates, the Advi-
sory Committee shall have authority to enter into
contracts with private or public organizations which
may furnish the Advisory Committee with such ad-
ministrative and technical personnel as may be nec-
essary to carry out the functions authorized by sub-
section (c). To the extent practicable, such adminis-
trative and technical personnel, and other necessary
support services, shall be provided for the Advisory
Committee by the Chief of the Forest Service and the
Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
(3) COMMITTEE
RULES.—The Advisory Com-
mittee may establish such procedural and administra-
tive rules as are necessary for the performance of the
functions authorized by subsection (c).
(f) FEDERAL AGENCY COOPERATION.—The heads of
the departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the exec-
utive branch of the Federal Government shall cooperate with
the Advisory Committee in the performance of its functions
under subsection (c) and shall furnish to the Advisory Com-
mittee information which the Advisory Committee deems
necessary to carry out such functions.
(g) COMMITTEE TERMINATION.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall terminate three years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act.
SEC. 8. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS.
It is the sense of Congress that the payments to eligible
States and eligible counties required by this Act should be
replaced by a long-term solution to generate payments con-
forming to the guidance provided by section 7(c)(2) and
that any promulgation of regulations or enactment of legis-
lation to establish such method should be completed within
two years after the date of submission of the final report
required by section 7(c)(1).
SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such
sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
SEC. 10. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) REPEAL OF SAFETY NET PAYMENTS.—Sections
13982 and 13983 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1993 (Public Law 103–66; 16 U.S.C. 500 note; 43 U.S.C.
1181f note) are repealed.
(b) PAYMENTS
FOR ENTITLEMENT LAND.—Section
6903(a)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through
(J) as subparagraphs (E) through (K), respectively;
and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(D) the County Schools Funding Revital-
ization Act of 1999;’’.