[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 390 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 390

 To amend title 54, United States Code, to ensure that amounts in the 
  land and water conservation fund are made available for projects to 
      provide recreational public access, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 5, 2015

  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 title 54, United States Code, to ensure that amounts in the 
  land and water conservation fund are made available for projects to 
      provide recreational public access, 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 ``Making Public Land Public Access 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND FOR 
              RECREATIONAL PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECTS.

    (a) Availability of Funds.--Section 200303 of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 200303. Availability of funds for certain projects
    ``(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure that, of 
the amounts requested for the fund for each fiscal year, not less than 
the greater of 1.5 percent of the amounts or $10,000,000 shall be made 
available for projects identified on the priority list developed under 
subsection (b).
    ``(b) Priority List.--The Secretary and the Secretary of 
Agriculture, in consultation with the head of each affected Federal 
agency, shall annually develop a priority list for the sites under the 
jurisdiction of the applicable Secretary.
    ``(c) Criteria.--Projects identified on the priority list developed 
under subsection (b) shall secure recreational public access to Federal 
public land in existence as of the date of enactment of this section 
that has significantly restricted access for hunting, fishing, and 
other recreational purposes through rights-of-way or acquisition of 
land (or any interest in land) from willing sellers.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Title 54.--
                    (A) Table of sections.--The table of sections 
                affected for title 54 is amended by striking the item 
                relating to section 200303 and inserting the following:

``200303. Availability of funds for certain projects.''.
                    (B) Availability of deposits.--Section 200302(c)(3) 
                of title 54, United States Code, is amended by striking 
                ``Notwithstanding section 200303 of this title, money'' 
                and inserting ``Money''.
                    (C) Contracts for acquisition of land and water.--
                Section 200308 of title 54, United States Code, is 
                amended in the first sentence, by striking ``by section 
                200303 of this title''.
                    (D) Contracts for options to acquire land and water 
                in system.--Section 200309 of title 54, United States 
                Code, is amended in the third sentence by striking ``by 
                section 200303 of this title''.
            (2) Federal land transaction facilitation act.--Section 
        206(f)(2) of the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (43 
        U.S.C. 2305(f)(2)) is amended by striking ``section 200303 of 
        title 54'' and inserting ``chapter 2003 of title 54''.
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