[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 721 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 721

  To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965; and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 1 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

  Mr. Johnston (for himself and Mr. Bumpers) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965; 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 Water Conservation Fund 
Emergency Funding Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY FUNDING.

    Title I of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as 
amended, (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through 460l-11) is further amended by 
adding the following new section at the end thereof:

                          ``emergency funding.

    ``Sec. 13. (a) For the purpose of reducing the significant backlog 
of unacquired lands within the authorized boundaries of units of the 
national park, wildlife refuge, wilderness, wild and scenic river, 
trail, and forest systems, and providing critically needed funding to 
the States for the purposes of section 6 of this Act, the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall make available, in each of fiscal years 1994, 1995, 
1996, 1997, and 1998, without further appropriation and notwithstanding 
any other provision of this Act, to the Secretary of the Interior 
(hereinafter referred to as the ``Secretary'') and the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the sum of $1,000,000,000, which amount shall be deducted 
from the authorized but unappropriated balance of the fund, to be 
expended solely in accordance with the provisions of this section.
    ``(b) From the funds made available in each fiscal year pursuant to 
subsection (a)--
            ``(1) $200,000,000 shall be utilized by the Secretary for 
        state purposes as provided in section 6 of this Act;
            ``(2) $600,000,000 shall be utilized by the Secretary for 
        federal purposes as provided in section 7 of this Act; and
            ``(3) $200,000,000 shall be utilized by the Secretary of 
        Agriculture for federal purposes as provided in section 7 of 
        this Act.
    ``(c)(1) Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Emergency Funding Act of 1993, and 
thereafter as part of the Department's annual budget submission to the 
Congress for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Secretary 
(for National Park Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
and Bureau of Land Management land acquisition projects) and the 
Secretary of Agriculture (for Forest Service land acquisition projects) 
shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations of the United States 
Senate and United States House of Representatives lists, in descending 
order of priority, of land acquisition projects within each agency or 
bureau, which have been authorized by law (hereinafter in this section 
referred to as ``priority lists'').
    ``(2) Such priority lists shall be prepared in consultation with 
the head of the affected bureau or agency, taking into account the best 
professional judgment regarding the land acquisition priorities and 
policies of each bureau or agency. In preparing such priority lists, 
the Secretaries shall consider--
            ``(A) the availability of land appraisal and other 
        information necessary to complete the acquisition in a timely 
        manner;
            ``(B) the potential adverse impacts which might result if 
        the acquisition is not undertaken; and
            ``(C) such other factors as the Secretaries deem 
        appropriate.
            ``(3) The Secretary shall, when preparing such priority 
        lists, ensure that the National Park Service, the United States 
        Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management 
        receive a fair and equitable share of the funds allocated 
        pursuant to subsection (b)(2), consistent with the land 
        acquisition needs of each bureau and the historical patterns of 
        distribution from the fund to each bureau: Provided, That no 
        bureau shall be allocated more than 50 per centum of the funds 
        made available pursuant to subsection (b)(2) nor shall any 
        bureau be allocated less than 10 per centum of the funds made 
        available pursuant to subsection (b)(2).
    ``(d) Funds made available pursuant to paragraphs (b) (2) and (3) 
shall be allocated to projects in accordance with the priority lists 
transmitted pursuant to this section unless such priority lists are 
modified by law.
    ``(e) No funds shall be made available for the purposes of this 
section until after the enactment of the Appropriations Act for the 
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies for the appropriate 
fiscal year.''.

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