To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to clarify the treatment of title III project funds reserved by counties under such Act for purposes of disbursements under chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code.

Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to require that funds collected from National Forest System and Bureau of Land Management Lands payments and reserved for County Projects (search, rescue, and emergency services, community service work camps, easement purchases, forest related educational opportunities, fire prevention and county planning, and community forestry) shall not be treated as amounts received (and so deducted) in calculating Federal payments to counties for national entitlement land.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5379 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5379

To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
of 2000 to clarify the treatment of title III project funds reserved by 
counties under such Act for purposes of disbursements under chapter 69 
                    of title 31, United States Code.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 2002

Mr. Nethercutt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
of 2000 to clarify the treatment of title III project funds reserved by 
counties under such Act for purposes of disbursements under chapter 69 
                    of title 31, United States Code.

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

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF TITLE III PROJECT FUNDS RESERVED BY COUNTIES 
              UNDER SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-
              DETERMINATION ACT OF 2000.

    (a) National Forest System Lands Payments.--Section 102(d)(2)(B) of 
the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 
(Public Law 106-393; 16 U.S.C. 500 note) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new sentence: ``Notwithstanding section 6903(a)(1)(C) 
of title 31, United States Code, the funds so reserved shall not be 
treated as amounts received by the eligible county under a payment law 
for purposes of calculating payments for that county under chapter 69 
of such title.''.
    (b) Bureau of Land Management Lands Payments.--Section 103(c)(2)(B) 
of such Act is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
``Notwithstanding section 6903(a)(1)(C) of title 31, United States 
Code, the funds so reserved shall not be treated as amounts received by 
the eligible county under a payment law for purposes of calculating 
payments for that county under chapter 69 of such title.''.
                                 <all>