119-s1547

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 1547 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1547

 To amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National 
 Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 May 1, 2025

Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. King, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Warner, Mr. Sheehy, 
 Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Hickenlooper) 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 reauthorize the National 
 Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 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 ``America the Beautiful Act''.

SEC. 2. REUAUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LAND LEGACY 
 RESTORATION FUND.

    (a) Deposits.--

Section 200402

    (b) of title 54, United States Code, 
is amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking ``2025'' and inserting 
 ``2033''; and

    (2) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking ``$1,900,000,000'' and 
 inserting ``$2,000,000,000''.

    (b) Use of Funds.--

Section 200402

    (e) of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1) , in the matter preceding subparagraph
        (A) , by striking ``in the National Wildlife Refuge System'' and 
 inserting ``on land administered by the United States Fish and 
 Wildlife Service''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (3) Project prioritization.--The Secretary and the 
 Secretary of Agriculture shall prioritize the use of amounts 
 allocated from the Fund for projects that receive donations 
 under subsection

    (j) of not less than 15 percent of the total 
 costs of the applicable project.''.
            (c) Submission of Annual List of Projects to Congress.--

Section 200402

    (h) of title 54, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
``and the subsequent fiscal year'' before the period at the end.
            (d) Alternate Allocation.--

Section 200402
            (i) of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1) , by inserting ``for the applicable 
 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal year'' after ``under this 
 section''; and

    (2) in paragraph

    (2) , by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (C) No full-year appropriations enacted.--If 
 Congress has not enacted full-year appropriations for 
 the Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
 Related Agencies for the applicable fiscal year by the 
 end of the previous fiscal year, amounts made available 
 under subsection
            (c) shall be allocated by the 
 President, if that allocation had previously been 
 approved under paragraph

    (1) as an allocation for the 
 subsequent fiscal year.''.

    (e) Public Donations.--

Section 200402

    (j) of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended--

    (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Public'';

    (2) in paragraph

    (1) , in the matter preceding subparagraph
        (A) , by striking ``public'';

    (3) by redesignating paragraphs

    (2) and

    (3) as paragraphs

    (3) and

    (4) , respectively;

    (4) by inserting after paragraph

    (1) the following:
 ``

    (2) Solicitation of donations.--The Secretary and the 
 Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the public 
 information on the ability of the Secretary and the Secretary 
 of Agriculture to accept donations under paragraph

    (1) , 
 including through--
 ``
        (A) public awareness campaigns;
 ``
        (B) physical or digital donation locations at 
 project sites; and
 ``
            (C) during the checkout process for the purchase 
 of a physical or digital pass to access a Federal 
 recreational site or an interagency pass, such as the 
 America the Beautiful--the National Parks and Federal 
 Recreational Lands Pass.'';

    (5) by striking paragraph

    (3) (as so redesignated) and 
 inserting the following:
 ``

    (3) Credits to fund.--Any cash donations accepted under 
 paragraph

    (1) --
 ``
        (A) shall be--
 ``
            (i) credited to, and form a part of, the 
 Fund; and
 ``
            (ii) allocated to the covered agency for 
 which the donation was made; and
 ``
        (B) may be allocated to specific projects 
 included on a list submitted under subsection

    (h) .''; 
 and

    (6) in paragraph

    (4) (as so redesignated), by striking 
 ``paragraph

    (2)
        (B) '' and inserting ``paragraph

    (3)
        (A)
            (ii) ''.

    (f) Disposal of Assets; Report to Congress.--

Section 200402 of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
 ``
            (l) Disposal of Assets.--The Secretary and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall provide for the disposal of constructed assets 
included on a deferred maintenance list submitted under subsection

    (h) that no longer serve the public interest or advance the mission of the 
applicable unit to which the asset belongs.
 ``
            (m) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this subsection, the Secretary and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
report that--
 ``

    (1) describes actions taken by the covered agencies 
 without using amounts from the Fund to reduce deferred 
 maintenance in the System, on land administered by the United 
 States Fish and Wildlife Service, on public land administered 
 by the Bureau of Land Management, for the Bureau of Indian 
 Education schools, and in the National Forest System; and
 ``

    (2) includes a plan from the covered agencies to increase 
 preventative annual and cyclic maintenance activities by 
 covered agencies to a level that properly maintains the assets 
 of the covered agencies and prevents the addition of assets to 
 a deferred maintenance list under subsection

    (h) .''.
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