Historic Preservation Enhancement Act
Bill: H.R.6589 | Sponsor: Rep. Leger Fernandez, Teresa (D-NM)
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Historic Preservation Enhancement Act
This bill provides increased funding for and makes permanent the Historic Preservation Fund. This fund supports grants for states, tribes, localities, and nonprofits to carry out historic preservation activities.
Any amounts deposited in the fund shall be made available for expenditure without further congressional appropriation.
The President shall submit to Congress program allocations made available from the fund as part of the President's annual budget.

To amend title 54, United States Code, to increase amounts deposited in 
        the Historic Preservation Fund, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Historic Preservation Enhancement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND PROVISIONS.

    (a) Funding.--Section 303102 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``For each'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.-- For each'';
            (2) by striking ``of fiscal years 2012 to 2023'' and 
        inserting ``fiscal year,'';
            (3) by striking ``$150,000,000'' and inserting 
        ``$300,000,000''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Deposits.--Should revenues described in subsection (a) be 
insufficient to deposit in the Historic Preservation Fund the amount 
described in such subsection, the difference shall be deposited from 
amounts in the General Treasury.''.
    (b) Use and Availability.--Section 303103 of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 303103. Use and availability
    ``(a) In General.--Any amounts deposited in the Historic 
Preservation Fund under section 303102 for fiscal year 2022 and each 
fiscal year thereafter shall be made available for expenditure for 
fiscal year 2023 and each fiscal year thereafter, without further 
appropriation or fiscal year limitation, to carry out this division 
(including programs made available from the Historic Preservation 
Fund).
    ``(b) Allocation Authority.--
            ``(1) Submission of cost estimates.--The President shall 
        submit to Congress detailed program allocations of the full 
        amount made available under subsection (a)--
                    ``(A) for fiscal year 2023, not later than 90 days 
                after the date of the enactment of the Historic 
                Preservation Enhancement Act; and
                    ``(B) for each fiscal year thereafter, as part of 
                the annual budget submission of the President.
            ``(2) Alternate allocation.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Appropriations Acts may provide 
                for alternate allocation of amounts made available 
                under subsection (a), including allocations by program.
                    ``(B) Allocation by president.--
                            ``(i) No alternate allocations.--If 
                        Congress has not enacted legislation 
                        establishing alternate allocations by the date 
                        on which the Act making full-year 
                        appropriations for the Department of the 
                        Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for 
                        the applicable fiscal year is enacted into law, 
                        amounts made available under subsection (a) 
                        shall be allocated by the President.
                            ``(ii) Insufficient alternate allocation.--
                        If Congress enacts legislation establishing 
                        alternate allocations for amounts made 
                        available under subsection (a) that are less 
                        than the full amount appropriated under such 
                        subsection, the difference between the amount 
                        appropriated and the alternate allocation shall 
                        be allocated by the President.
            ``(3) Annual report.--The President shall submit to 
        Congress an annual report that describes the final allocation 
        by program and project of amounts made available under 
        subsection (a), including a description of the status of 
        obligations and expenditures.''.
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