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112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4408 
To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements under 
such Act for land management related to Department of Defense installa-
tions and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency 
cooperation in conservation programs. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 19, 2012 
Ms. BORDALLO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Natural 
Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative 
agreements under such Act for land management related 
to Department of Defense installations and to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency 
cooperation in conservation programs. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS UNDER SIKES 
ACT FOR LAND MANAGEMENT RELATED TO 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS. 
(a) MULTIYEAR AGREEMENTS TO FUND ENDOW-
MENT.—Subsection (b) of section 103A of the Sikes Act 
(16 U.S.C. 670c–1) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘Funds’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) In the case of a cooperative agreement described 
in subsection (a)(2), funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense for a fiscal year may be obligated to cover 
the cost of funding an endowment for the costs of natural 
resource maintenance and improvement activities provided 
for under the agreement.’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF FUNDS
AND RELATION
TO 
OTHER LAWS.—Subsection (c) of such section is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND RELATION TO 
OTHER LAWS.—(1) Cooperative agreements and inter-
agency agreements entered into under this section shall 
be subject to the availability of funds. 
‘‘(2) Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United 
States Code, a cooperative agreement under this section 
may be used to acquire property or services for the direct 
benefit or use of the United States Government.’’. 
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SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN 
CONSERVATION PROGRAMS OF THE DEPART-
MENTS OF DEFENSE, AGRICULTURE, INTE-
RIOR, AND COMMERCE. 
Section 2684a of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection 
(j); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (h) the fol-
lowing new subsection (i): 
‘‘(i) FACILITATION OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION 
IN CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.—In order to facilitate 
interagency cooperation and enhance the effectiveness of 
actions that will protect both the environment and military 
readiness, and notwithstanding any other provision of law 
relating to matching funds or cost-sharing requirements, 
the recipient of funds provided by the Secretary of Defense 
or the Secretary of a military department pursuant an 
agreement under this section or under the Sikes Act (16 
U.S.C. 670 et seq.) may, with regard to the lands and 
waters within the scope of the agreement, use such funds 
to satisfy any matching funds or cost-sharing requirement 
of any conservation program of the Department of Agri-
culture, the Department of Commerce, or the Department 
of the Interior.’’. 
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