[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 496 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 496

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 2, 2005

  Mr. Salazar 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 Refuge Revenue Sharing 
Permanent Funding Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT FUNDING.

    (a) Payments in Lieu of Taxes.--
            (1) In general.--Section 6906 of title 31, United States 
        Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 6906. Funding
    ``For fiscal year 2006 and each fiscal year thereafter, amounts 
authorized under this chapter shall be made available to the Secretary 
of the Interior, out of any amounts in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated and without further appropriation, for obligation or 
expenditure in accordance with this chapter.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--The table of sections for 
        chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
        striking the item relating to section 6906 and inserting the 
        following:

``6906. Funding.''.
    (b) Refuge Revenue Sharing.--Section 401(d) of the Act of June 15, 
1935 (16 U.S.C. 715s(d)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``If the net receipts'' and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(1) If the net receipts''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) For fiscal year 2006 and each fiscal year thereafter, the 
amount made available under paragraph (1) shall be made available to 
the Secretary, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated and without further appropriation, for obligation or 
expenditure in accordance with this section.''.
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