[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 896 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 896

    To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2017

   Mr. Burr (for himself, Mr. Bennet, Ms. Collins, Mr. Gardner, Mr. 
Daines, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Heinrich) 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 permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PERMANENT REAUTHORIZATION OF LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION 
              FUND.

    (a) In General.--Section 200302 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``During the period ending September 30, 2018, 
        there'' and inserting ``There''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``through September 
        30, 2018''.
    (b) Public Access.--Section 200306 of title 54, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Public Access.--Not less than 1.5 percent of amounts made 
available for expenditure in any fiscal year under section 200303, or 
$10,000,000, whichever is greater, shall be used for projects that 
secure recreational public access to existing Federal public land for 
hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.''.
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