Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2013

Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2013 - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to make permanent the authorization for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Makes monies covered into the Fund available for expenditure to carry out the purposes of the Act without further appropriation.

Requires not less than 1.5% of the annual authorized funding amount to be made available for projects that secure recreational public access to existing federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 338 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 338

 To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide 
consistent and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land 
 and water conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund 
            for future generations, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 14, 2013

Mr. Baucus (for himself, Mr. Burr, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Graham, Mr. Udall of 
   Colorado, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Udall of New Mexico) 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 the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide 
consistent and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land 
 and water conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund 
            for future generations, 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 ``Land and Water Conservation 
Authorization and Funding Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT AUTHORIZATION; FULL FUNDING.

    (a) Purposes.--The purposes of the amendments made by subsection 
(b) are--
            (1) to provide consistent and reliable authority for, and 
        for the funding of, the land and water conservation fund 
        established under section 2 of the Land and Water Conservation 
        Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-5); and
            (2) to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future 
        generations.
    (b) Amendments.--
            (1) Permanent authorization.--Section 2 of the Land and 
        Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-5) is 
        amended--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subsection (a), by 
                striking ``During the period ending September 30, 2015, 
                there'' and inserting ``There''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``through 
                September 30, 2015''.
            (2) Full funding.--Section 3 of the Land and Water 
        Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-6) is amended to 
        read as follows:

``SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.

    ``Monies covered into the fund under section 2 shall be available 
for expenditure to carry out the purposes of this Act, without further 
appropriation.''.
    (c) Public Access.--Section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-9) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(d) Public Access.--Not less than 1.5 percent of the annual 
authorized funding amount shall be made available each year for 
projects that secure recreational public access to existing Federal 
public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.''.
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