[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1517 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1517

To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund to limit the use of funds 
available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to use 
                            for maintenance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2003

  Mr. Graves (for himself, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. 
  Gibbons, Mr. Otter, Mr. Thornberry, and Mr. Cannon) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources, and 
    in addition to the Committee on 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 amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund to limit the use of funds 
available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to use 
                            for maintenance.

    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 Reinvestment Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FROM LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION 
              FUND.

    The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 is amended--
            (1) in section 1(b)(2) (16 U.S.C. 460l-4(b)(2)) by striking 
        ``acquisition and development'' and inserting ``maintenance'';
            (2) in section 5 (16 U.S.C. 460l-7) in the last sentence, 
        in the text preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``acquisition'' and inserting ``maintenance'';
            (3) in section 7(a) (16 U.S.C. 460l-9(a))--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by 
                inserting ``for maintenance'' after ``otherwise 
                allotted'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding the first 
                        undesignated paragraph by striking ``For the 
                        acquisition'' and inserting ``For the 
                        maintenance'';
                            (ii) by amending the second undesignated 
                        paragraph to read as follows:
            ``National forest system.--Wilderness areas of the National 
        Forest System, and other areas of national forests that are 
        primarily of value for outdoor recreation.''; and
                            (iii) by amending the third undesignated 
                        paragraph to read as follows:
            ``National wildlife refuge system.--Federal lands that are 
        acquired for endangered species and threatened species under 
        section 5(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973; areas 
        acquired under section 2 of the Act of September 28, 1962 (16 
        U.S.C. 460k-1); national wildlife refuge areas acquired under 
        section 7(a)(5) of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 
        742f(a)(4)), and wetlands acquired under section 304 of the 
        Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986; and any areas 
        acquired for the National Wildlife Refuge System by specific 
        Acts.''; and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (3);
            (4) in subsection (b) of section 7 (16 U.S.C. 460l-9(b)) by 
        striking ``unless'' and all that follows through the end of the 
        subsection and inserting a period;
            (5) by striking subsection (c) of section 7 (16 U.S.C. 
        460l-9(c)); and
            (6) by striking sections 9 and 10 (16 U.S.C 460l-10a and 
        460l-10b).

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT TO REDUCE BACKLOGGED MAINTENANCE.

    The head of each covered landholding agency shall--
            (1) by not later than the end of the 5-fiscal-year period 
        beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, reduce by 
        at least 20 percent the dollar value of backlogged maintenance 
        that exists on the date of the enactment of this Act with 
        respect to lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
        agency; and
            (2) by not later than the end of each 5-fiscal-year period 
        thereafter, reduce the dollar value of backlogged maintenance 
        that exists on the first day of that period with respect to 
        lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the agency, by 
        an amount that is equal to or greater than the sum of--
                    (A) 20 percent of the dollar value of backlogged 
                maintenance that exists on the date of the enactment of 
                this Act with respect to such lands;
                    (B) the amount of any reduction in backlogged 
                maintenance previously required under this section that 
                has not been carried out; and
                    (C) any additional backlogged maintenance that 
                arose on or after the date of the enactment of this Act 
                and that has not been carried out.

SEC. 4. REPORTS ON REDUCTION OF BACKLOGGED MAINTENANCE.

    (a) In General.--The head of each covered landholding agency shall 
publish and submit reports to the Congress that--
            (1) document the progress made by the agency in reducing 
        backlogged maintenance with respect to lands under the 
        administrative jurisdiction of the agency, including a 
        statement of--
                    (A) the dollar value of the reduction in backlogged 
                maintenance that has been achieved by the agency in the 
                5-fiscal-year period covered by the report;
                    (B) whether or not the agency, in the 5-fiscal-year 
                period covered by the report, has achieved the 
                reduction in backlogged maintenance required to be 
                achieved by the agency under section 3 for that period; 
                and
                    (C) the amount (if any) by which the dollar value 
                stated in subparagraph (A) is less than the amount of 
                reduction in backlogged maintenance that is required to 
                be achieved by the agency under section 3;
            (2) include a prioritized list of construction, deferred 
        maintenance, and regular maintenance projects the agency must 
        carry out in order to achieve reductions in backlogged 
        maintenance required under section 3; and
            (3) include a plan for carrying out such projects over the 
        next 5 fiscal years.
    (b) Timing of Reports.--The head of a covered landholding agency--
            (1) shall publish and submit the first report under this 
        section by not later than 30 days after the end of the first 5-
        fiscal-year period beginning after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act; and
            (2) shall publish and submit subsequent reports under this 
        section by not later than 30 days after the end of each 
        subsequent 5-fiscal-year period thereafter until all backlogged 
        maintenance has been completed with respect to lands under the 
        administratieve jurisdiction of the agency.
    (c) Final Report.--Not later than December 31 of the year in which 
all backlogged maintenance has been completed with respect to lands 
under the administratieve jurisdiction of a covered landholding agency, 
the head of the agency shall submit to the Congress a final report 
that, in detail--
            (1) prioritizes lands that are owned by the Federal 
        Government and under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
        agency, based on the success of programs of the agency that 
        relate to such lands;
            (2) describes a system of regular maintenance that is 
        required with respect to such lands; and
            (3) includes a prioritized list of capital improvement 
        projects for such lands.

SEC. 5. PRIORITIZATION OF LANDS.

    Not later than 4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the head of each covered landholding agency shall submit to the 
Congress a report that prioritizes lands that are owned by the Federal 
Government and under the administrative jurisdiction of the agency, 
from highest to lowest priority in the order of their importance to the 
success of programs carried out by the agency.

SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Backlogged maintenance.--The term ``backlogged 
        maintenance''--
                    (A) means the total dollar value of regular 
                maintenance, deferred maintenance, and capital 
                improvement to be carried out with respect to lands 
                under the administrative jurisdiction of a covered 
                landholding agency that has not been completed; and
                    (B) is deemed to be, on the date of the enactment 
                of this Act--
                            (i) $354,000,000 with respect to lands 
                        under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
                        Bureau of Land Management;
                            (ii) $1,500,000,000 with respect to lands 
                        under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
                        United States Fish and Wildlife Service;
                            (iii) $7,300,000,000 with respect to lands 
                        under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
                        Forest Service; and
                            (iv) $5,400,000,000 with respect to lands 
                        under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
                        National Park Service.
            (2) Covered landholding agency.--The term ``covered 
        landholding agency'' means each of--
                    (A) the Bureau of Land Management;
                    (B) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service;
                    (C) the Forest Service; and
                    (D) the National Park Service.
            (3) Maintenance.--The term ``maintenance'' means the upkeep 
        of real property, including capital improvement and 
        development.
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