[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 511 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 511

To provide permanent funding for the Payment In Lieu of Taxes program, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 4, 2003

    Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. Reid) 
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 provide permanent funding for the Payment In Lieu of Taxes program, 
                        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 ``PILT and Revenue Refuge Sharing 
Permanent Funding Act''.

SEC. 2. DISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS.

    Section 6903(c)(2) of title 31, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``The limitation for a unit of general local government with a 
population of at least 5,000 is the following amount (rounding the 
population off to the nearest thousand):

If population is less than or       the limitation is equal to the 
        equals--                            population times--
        5,000..................................................  265.58
        6,000-----------.......................................  242.46
        7,000..................................................  222.47
        8,000..................................................  200.98
        9,000-----------.......................................  182.52
        10,000.................................................  162.65
        11,000.................................................  153.91
        12,000.................................................  145.40
        13,000.................................................  135.18
        14,000.................................................  127.24
        15,000.................................................  119.51
        16,000.................................................  113.78
        17,000.................................................  108.16
        18,000.................................................  102.68
        19,000.................................................   97.29
        20,000.................................................   92.05
        21,000.................................................   86.92
        22,000.................................................   81.90
        23,000.................................................   78.34
        24,000.................................................   73.52
        25,000.................................................   68.81
        26,000.................................................   67.61
        27,000.................................................   67.61
        28,000.................................................   67.61
        29,000.................................................   66.39
        30,000.................................................   66.39
        31,000.................................................   65.18
        32,000.................................................   65.18
        33,000.................................................   63.98
        34,000.................................................   63.98
        35,000.................................................   62.77
        36,000.................................................   62.77
        37,000.................................................   61.57
        38,000.................................................   61.57
        39,000.................................................   60.36
        40,000.................................................   60.36
        41,000.................................................   59.16
        42,000.................................................   57.94
        43,000.................................................   57.94
        44,000.................................................   56.73
        45,000.................................................   56.73
        46,000.................................................   55.53
        47,000.................................................   55.53
        48,000.................................................   54.33
        49,000.................................................   54.33
        50,000.................................................   53.11

SEC. 3. PERMANENT FUNDING FOR PILT AND REFUGE REVENUE SHARING.

    (a) Payments in Lieu of Taxes.--Section 6906 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``Beginning in fiscal year 2003 and each year thereafter, amounts 
authorized under this chapter shall be made available to the Secretary 
of the Interior, without further appropriation, for obligation or 
expenditure in accordance with this chapter.''.
    (b) Refuge Revenue Sharing.--Section 401(d) of the Act of June 15, 
1935, as amended (16 U.S.C. 715s(d)) (related to refuge revenue 
sharing) is amended by adding at the end thereof:
``Beginning in fiscal year 2003 and each year thereafter, such amount 
shall be made available to the Secretary, without further 
appropriation, for obligation or expenditure in accordance with this 
section.''.---

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.
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