Title: LAND Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Land and National Park Deferred Maintenance Act or the LAND Act
This bill extends the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) through FY2024.
From the amounts deposited into the LWCF, $450 million shall be available in each fiscal year for expenditure to carry out the purposes of the Act establishing the LWCF and the purposes of the LWCF. Remaining amounts in the LWCF shall be available subject to appropriations.
The bill specifies the use of amounts for federal purposes for certain land and water acquisitions (as currently) and financial assistance to states for LWCF purposes and outdoor recreation, the Forest Legacy Program, cooperative endangered species grants, and the American Battlefield Protection Program.
The President must submit to Congress, as part of the annual budget submission, the account, program, and project allocations for funds that are made available from the LWCF for federal purposes.
The bill prohibits the use of any funding made available to a state under this bill from being used for the acquisition of lands, waters, or interests in lands or waters by eminent domain.
At least 1.5% of appropriated or expended LWCF funds must be available for projects that secure recreational public access to existing federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.
The bill establishes a National Park Service and Related Agencies Maintenance and Revitalization Conservation Fund in the Treasury for the deposit through FY2024 of $450 million from mineral revenues that are not otherwise credited, covered, or deposited under federal law. Of amounts made available from this fund, the Department of the Interior shall use specified amounts for high priority deferred maintenance needs that support critical infrastructure and visitor services. The Department of Agriculture shall use a specified amount for federal lands administered by the Forest Service for such high priority deferred maintenance needs.


[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2863 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2863

 To provide for consistent and reliable authority and funding to meet 
 conservation and deferred maintenance needs affecting lands under the 
 administrative jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and the 
           Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2017

 Mr. Simpson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on 
the Budget, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for consistent and reliable authority and funding to meet 
 conservation and deferred maintenance needs affecting lands under the 
 administrative jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and the 
           Department of Agriculture, 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 ``Land and National Park Deferred 
Maintenance Act'' or the ``LAND Act''.

SEC. 2. LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND.

    (a) Reauthorization.--Section 200302 of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``September 30, 2018,'' and inserting 
        ``September 30, 2024''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1) of subsection (c), by striking 
        ``September 30, 2018'', and inserting ``September 30, 2024''.
    (b) Funding.--Section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 200303. Funding
    ``(a) Funding for Fiscal Years 2018 Through 2024.--From amounts 
covered into the fund under section 200302 of this chapter--
            ``(1) $450,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be available 
        for expenditure to carry out the purposes of this Act, without 
        further appropriation or fiscal year limitation, to carry out 
        the purposes of the Fund (including accounts and programs made 
        available from the Fund under the Consolidated Appropriations 
        Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-31)); and
            ``(2) the remainder of amounts covered into the fund shall 
        be available subject to appropriations, which may be made 
        without fiscal year limitation.
    ``(b) Uses.--Amounts made available for obligation or expenditure 
from the fund may be obligated or expended only as provided in this 
chapter.''.
    (c) Allocation and Uses of Funds.--Section 200304 of title 54, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``There'' and inserting ``(a) In General.--
        There''; and
            (2) by striking the second sentence and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(b) Allocation.--Of amounts appropriated or expended from the 
Fund--
            ``(1) $180,000,000 shall be used for Federal purposes under 
        section 200306;
            ``(2) $220,000,000 shall be used--
                    ``(A) to provide financial assistance to States 
                under section 200305;
                    ``(B) for the Forest Legacy Program established 
                under section 7 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance 
                Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2103c);
                    ``(C) for the American Battlefield Protection 
                Program established under chapter 3081; and
                    ``(D) for cooperative endangered species grants 
                authorized under section 6 of the Endangered Species 
                Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535); and
            ``(3) remaining appropriations or expenditures shall be 
        used for activities described under paragraphs (1) and (2).
    ``(c) Priorities.--The President shall, as part of the President's 
annual budget submission to Congress, submit to Congress detailed 
account, program, and project allocations for funds made available 
under paragraph (b)(1). Acts of appropriation may provide alternate 
allocations for such amounts.
    ``(d) Prohibition on Use of Eminent Domain.--No funds made 
available to a State under this Act may be used for the acquisition of 
land, water, or an interest in land or water by eminent domain.''.
    (d) Recreation Access.--Section 200306 of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Public Access.--Not less than 1.5 percent of amounts 
appropriated or expended under this chapter in each fiscal year shall 
be made available for the fiscal year for projects that secure 
recreational public access to existing Federal public land for hunting, 
fishing, and other recreational purposes.''.
    (e) Conforming Amendments.--In title 54, United States Code--
            (1) in section 200302, paragraph (3) of subsection (c) is 
        amended by inserting ``or otherwise expended'' after 
        ``Congress'';
            (2) in section 200304--
                    (A) the first sentence is amended by inserting ``or 
                expenditures'' after ``appropriations''; and
                    (B) the second sentence is amended by inserting 
                ``or expenditures'' after ``appropriations'';
            (3) in section 200305--
                    (A) the matter preceding paragraph (1) of 
                subsection (b) is amended by inserting ``or otherwise 
                provided'' after ``appropriated'';
                    (B) paragraph (1) of subsection (b) is amended by 
                inserting ``expenditures'' after ``appropriations''; 
                and
                    (C) paragraph (2) of subsection (b) is amended by 
                inserting ``expenditure'' after ``appropriation''; and
            (4) in section 200306--
                    (A) paragraph (1) is amended by inserting ``or 
                expended'' after ``appropriated'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), subparagraph (B)(ii) is 
                amended by inserting ``or expended'' after 
                ``appropriated'';
                    (C) paragraph (4) is amended by inserting ``or 
                expenditures'' after ``appropriations'' each time it 
                appears; and
                    (D) subsection (b) is amended by inserting ``or 
                expenditures'' after ``Appropriations'' each time it 
                appears.
    (f) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 2003 of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to section 200303 and inserting the following:

``200303. Funding.''.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAINTENANCE AND REVITALIZATION 
              CONSERVATION FUND.

    (a) In General.--There is hereby established in the Treasury a 
special account to be known as the ``National Park Service and Related 
Agencies Maintenance and Revitalization Conservation Fund''.
    (b) Availability of Funds.--For each of fiscal years 2018 through 
2024, $450,000,000 shall be available for expenditure to carry out the 
purposes of this Act, without further appropriation or fiscal year 
limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Fund. Amounts from the 
Fund shall not be used for the acquisition of land or interests in 
land.
    (c) Deposits.--At the beginning of each applicable fiscal year, 
there shall be deposited in the Fund $450,000,000 from mineral revenues 
due and payable to the United States that are not otherwise credited, 
covered, or deposited under Federal law.
    (d) Department of the Interior.--Of funds made available under 
subsection (b) each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
use the following amounts for high priority deferred maintenance needs 
that support critical infrastructure and visitor services:
            (1) $25,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative 
        jurisdiction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
            (2) $25,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative 
        jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.
            (3) $375,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative 
        jurisdiction of the National Park Service.
    (e) Department of Agriculture.--Of funds made available under 
subsection (b) each fiscal year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall use 
$25,000,000 for Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of 
the Forest Service for high priority deferred maintenance needs that 
support critical infrastructure and visitor services.

SEC. 4. OFFSET.

    It is the sense of Congress that the costs of carrying out this Act 
should be offset.
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