[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1265 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1265

 To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide 
consistent and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land 
 and water conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund 
            for future generations, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 23, 2011

    Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Udall of 
Colorado, and Mr. Tester) 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 to provide 
consistent and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land 
 and water conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund 
            for future generations, 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 
Authorization and Funding Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT AUTHORIZATION; FULL FUNDING.

    (a) Purposes.--The purposes of the amendments made by subsection 
(b) are--
            (1) to provide consistent and reliable authority for, and 
        for the funding of, the land and water conservation fund 
        established under section 2 of the Land and Water Conservation 
        Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-5); and
            (2) to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future 
        generations.
    (b) Amendments.--
            (1) Permanent authorization.--Section 2 of the Land and 
        Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-5) is 
        amended--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subsection (a), by 
                striking ``During the period ending September 30, 2015, 
                there'' and inserting ``There''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``through 
                September 30, 2015''.
            (2) Full funding.--Section 3 of the Land and Water 
        Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-6) is amended to 
        read as follows:

``SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.

    ``Monies covered into the fund under section 2 shall be available 
for expenditure to carry out the purposes of this Act, without further 
appropriation.''.
    (c) Public Access.--Section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-9) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(d) Public Access.--Not less than 1.5 percent of the annual 
authorized funding amount shall be made available each year for 
projects that secure recreational public access to existing Federal 
public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.''.
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