Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act

Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act

This bill makes permanent, beginning in FY2020, funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

The President shall annually submit to Congress specified details regarding the allocation of the full amounts of funds made available to the LWCF. Congress may provide for alternate allocations using specified procedures.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1081 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1081

To amend title 54, United States Code, to provide permanent, dedicated 
    funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 9, 2019

  Mr. Manchin (for himself, Mr. Gardner, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Burr, Mr. 
Bennet, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Mr. Daines, Mr. Udall, Mr. Alexander, 
 Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Graham, Mr. King, and Mrs. Shaheen) 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 title 54, United States Code, to provide permanent, dedicated 
    funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, 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 Fund 
Permanent Funding Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT FULL FUNDING OF THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND.

    (a) In General.--Section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 200303. Availability of funds
    ``(a) In General.--For fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, amounts deposited in the Fund under section 200302 shall be 
made available for expenditure, without further appropriation or fiscal 
year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Fund (including 
accounts and programs made available from the Fund under the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public 
Law 113-235; 128 Stat. 2130)).
    ``(b) Additional Amounts.--Amounts made available under subsection 
(a) shall be in addition to amounts made available to the Fund under 
section 105 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 
U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109-432) or otherwise appropriated from 
the Fund.
    ``(c) Allocation Authority.--
            ``(1) Submission of cost estimates.--The President shall 
        submit to Congress detailed account, program, and project 
        allocations to be funded under subsection (a) as part of the 
        annual budget submission of the President.
            ``(2) Alternate allocation.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Appropriations Acts may provide 
                for alternate allocation of amounts made available 
                under subsection (a), including allocations by account 
                and program.
                    ``(B) Allocation by president.--
                            ``(i) No alternate allocations.--If 
                        Congress has not enacted legislation 
                        establishing alternate allocations by the date 
                        that is 120 days after the date on which the 
                        applicable fiscal year begins, amounts made 
                        available under subsection (a) shall be 
                        allocated by the President.
                            ``(ii) Insufficient alternate allocation.--
                        If Congress enacts legislation establishing 
                        alternate allocations for amounts made 
                        available under subsection (a) that are less 
                        than the full amount appropriated under that 
                        subsection, the difference between the amount 
                        appropriated and the alternate allocation shall 
                        be allocated by the President.
            ``(3) Recreational public access.--Amounts expended from 
        the Fund under this section shall be consistent with the 
        requirements for recreational public access for hunting, 
        fishing, recreational shooting, or other outdoor recreational 
        purposes under section 200306(c).
            ``(4) Annual report.--The President shall submit to 
        Congress an annual report that describes the final allocation 
        by account, program, and project of amounts made available 
        under subsection (a), including a description of the status of 
        obligations and expenditures.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 200302(c) of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (3).
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 2003 of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to section 200303 and inserting the following:

``200303. Availability of funds.''.
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