I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3247
To provide consistent enforcement authority to the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, and the Forest Service to respond to violations of regulations 
regarding the management, use, and protection of public lands under 
the jurisdiction of these agencies, to clarify the purposes for which 
collected fines may be used, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2003
Mr. TANCREDO (for himself, Mr. MCINNIS, and Mr. UDALL of Colorado) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Re-
sources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide consistent enforcement authority to the Bureau 
of Land Management, the National Park Service, the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest 
Service to respond to violations of regulations regarding 
the management, use, and protection of public lands 
under the jurisdiction of these agencies, to clarify the 
purposes for which collected fines may be used, and 
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(A) by striking ‘‘That the Secretary’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(a) Regulations for Use and Manage-
ment of National Park System; Enforcement.—
The Secretary’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘Service,’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘proceedings.’’ and inserting the 
following: ‘‘Service. A violation of any such rule 
or regulation shall be a Class B misdemeanor, 
except that a person who knowingly and will-
fully violates any such rule or regulation shall 
be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, subject to 
fine as provided in section 3571 of title 18, 
United States Code, or imprisonment as pro-
vided in section 3581 of that title, or both. A 
person who violates any such rule or regulation 
may also be adjudged to pay all costs of the 
proceedings.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Such section 
is further amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘He may also’’ the first 
place it appears and inserting the following: 
‘‘(b) SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITIES.—The 
Secretary of the Interior may’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘He may also’’ the second 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘The Secretary 
may’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘No natural,’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(c) LEASE AND PERMIT AUTHORITIES.—No nat-
ural’’. 
(c) NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM LANDS.—
Subsection (f) of section 4 of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(f) PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.—
‘‘(1) PENALTIES.—A violation of this Act or 
any regulation issued thereunder shall be a Class B 
misdemeanor, except that a person who knowingly 
and willfully violates this Act or any regulation 
issued thereunder shall be guilty of a Class A mis-
demeanor, subject to fine as provided in section 
3571 of title 18, United States Code, or imprison-
ment as provided in section 3581 of that title, or 
both. A person who violates this Act or any regula-
tion issued thereunder may also be adjudged to pay 
all costs of the proceedings.’’. 
(d) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS.—The elev-
enth undesignated paragraph under the heading ‘‘sur-
veying the public lands’’ of the Act of June 4, 1897 (16 
U.S.C. 551), is amended by striking ‘‘destruction; and 
any’’ and all that follows through ‘‘or both.’’ and inserting 
the following: ‘‘destruction. A violation of any such rule 
or regulation shall be a Class B misdemeanor, except that 
a person who knowingly and willfully violates any such 
rule or regulation shall be guilty of a Class A mis-
demeanor, subject to fine as provided in section 3571 of 
title 18, United States Code, or imprisonment as provided 
in section 3581 of that title, or both. A person who violates 
any such rule or regulation may also be adjudged to pay 
all costs of the proceedings.’’. 
SEC. 3. CONSISTENT AUTHORITIES REGARDING USE OF 
COLLECTED FINES. 
(a) LANDS UNDER JURISDICTION OF BUREAU OF 
LAND MANAGEMENT.—Section 305 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1735), 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d) USE OF COLLECTED FINES.—
‘‘(1) AVAILABILITY
AND
AUTHORIZED
USE.—
Any moneys received by the United States as a re-
sult of a fine imposed under section 3571 of title 18, 
United States Code, for a violation of a regulation 
prescribed under section 303(a) shall be available to
the Secretary, without further appropriation and 
until expended, for the following purposes: 
‘‘(A) To cover the cost to the United 
States of any improvement, protection, or reha-
bilitation work on the public lands rendered 
necessary by the action which led to the fine. 
‘‘(B) To increase public awareness of regu-
lations and other requirements regarding the 
use of the public lands. 
‘‘(2) RETURN OF EXCESS FUNDS TO TREAS-
URY.—Moneys referred to in paragraph (1) that the 
Secretary determines are excess to the amounts nec-
essary to carry out the purposes specified in such 
paragraph shall be transferred to miscellaneous re-
ceipts.’’. 
(b) NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM LANDS.—Section 3 of 
the Act of August 25, 1916 (popularly known as the Na-
tional Park Service Organic Act; 16 U.S.C. 3), as amend-
ed by section 2(b), is further amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) USE OF COLLECTED FINES.—
‘‘(1) AVAILABILITY
AND
AUTHORIZED
USE.—
Any moneys received by the United States as a re-
sult of a fine imposed under section 3571 of title 18, 
United States Code, for a violation of a rule or regu-
lation prescribed under this section shall be available 
to the Secretary of the Interior, without further ap-
propriation and until expended, for the following 
purposes: 
‘‘(A) To cover the cost to the United 
States of any improvement, protection, or reha-
bilitation work on the National Park System 
lands rendered necessary by the action which 
led to the fine. 
‘‘(B) To increase public awareness of rules, 
regulations, and other requirements regarding 
the use of such lands. 
‘‘(2) RETURN OF EXCESS FUNDS TO TREAS-
URY.—Moneys referred to in paragraph (1) that the 
Secretary determines are excess to the amounts nec-
essary to carry out the purposes specified in such 
paragraph shall be transferred to miscellaneous re-
ceipts.’’. 
(c) NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM LANDS.—
Subsection (f) of section 4 of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd), 
as amended by section 2(c), is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(2) USE OF COLLECTED FINES.—Any moneys 
received by the United States as a result of a fine