Federal Land Compensation Act

Federal Land Compensation Act - Provides for the phasing-in of permanent funding for the following programs: (1) Bureau of Land Management Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT); and (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refuge revenue sharing program.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2337 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2337

To provide permanent funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2005

Mrs. Cubin (for herself and Mr. Cannon) introduced the following bill; 
            which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide permanent funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program, 
                        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 ``Federal Land Compensation Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT FUNDING FOR PILT AND REFUGE REVENUE SHARING.

    (a) Payments in Lieu of Taxes.--Section 6906 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Amounts authorized under this chapter shall be made available to the 
Secretary of the Interior, out of any other funds in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated and without further appropriation, for 
obligation or expenditure in accordance with this chapter as follows:
            ``(1) For fiscal year 2006, 80 percent of the amount 
        authorized under this chapter in the prior fiscal year.
            ``(2) For fiscal year 2007, 90 percent of the amount 
        authorized under this chapter in the prior fiscal year.
            ``(3) For fiscal year 2008, and each fiscal year 
        thereafter, 100 percent of the amount authorized under this 
        chapter in the prior fiscal year.''.
    (b) Refuge Revenue Sharing.--Section 401(d) of the Act of June 15, 
1935 (16 U.S.C. 715s(d)), relating to refuge revenue sharing, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Such amount shall be made available to the Secretary, out of any 
other funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and without 
further appropriation, for obligation or expenditure in accordance with 
this section as follows:
            ``(1) For fiscal year 2006, 80 percent of the amount 
        authorized under this chapter in the prior fiscal year.
            ``(2) For fiscal year 2007, 90 percent of the amount 
        authorized under this chapter in the prior fiscal year.
            ``(3) For fiscal year 2008, and each fiscal year 
        thereafter, 100 percent of the amount authorized under this 
        chapter in the prior fiscal year.''.
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