[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 5, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4949]
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  SA 2572. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF TRAIL STEWARDSHIP FOR 
                   ECONOMIC RECOVERY FUND.

       (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of 
     the United States a fund, to be known as the ``Trail 
     Stewardship for Economic Recovery Fund'' (referred to in this 
     section as the ``Fund'').
       (b) Deposit Into the Fund.--On the date of enactment of 
     this Act, out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise 
     obligated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit into 
     the Fund $200,000,000, to remain available until expended and 
     without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation, to 
     carry out the purposes described in subsection (c).
       (c) Use of Fund.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
     through the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to in this 
     section as the ``Secretary''), shall use amounts in the Fund 
     to enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with an 
     outfitter or guide to complete, on National Forest System 
     land--
       (A) trail maintenance projects; and
       (B) additional invasive plant and noxious weed prevention 
     and control projects.
       (2) Preference.--In entering into cooperative agreements or 
     contracts under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall--
       (A) give preference to projects described in subparagraphs 
     (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) that can be performed in an area 
     that the Secretary has selected as a priority area under 
     section 5 of the National Forest System Trails Stewardship 
     Act (16 U.S.C. 583k-3); and
       (B) expedite projects with the goal of initiating the 
     majority of the projects not later than 120 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act.
       (3) Contracts and agreements.--A cooperative agreement or 
     contract that is entered into under paragraph (1)--
       (A) shall not be subject to any requirement relating to the 
     procurement of matching funds under any other provision of 
     law; and
       (B) may contain such terms and conditions as the Secretary 
     requires.
       (d) Submission of List of Projects to Congress.--Not later 
     than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and 
     annually thereafter for each fiscal year for which amounts 
     made available under subsection (b) are expended, the 
     Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural 
     Resources of the House of Representatives a list of projects 
     described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (c)(1) 
     that--
       (1) meet the criteria described in this section; and
       (2) have been, or are expected to be, funded from amounts 
     made available under subsection (b).
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