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 Interior, the 
Department of Agriculture, the Army Corps of Engineers, 
the Department of Transportation, the Department of En-
ergy, 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) 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. 
(b) TRANSPORTATION.—The President may provide 
for the transportation of persons employed in the Civilian 
Conservation Corps to and from the places of employment. 
(c) 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. 
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SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act 
$16,000,000,000 for each fiscal years 2010 through 2013. 
(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, 2013. 
Æ 
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