May 9, 2000 (10:00 a.m.)
Amendments Submitted to H.R. 701, Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 1999
(in alphabetical order) Blumenauer #10 WITHDRAWN
Buyer #20 Strikes non-profit organizations from using federal funds for the purchase of conservation easements.
Calvert #11 Ensures that land owners are not forced to sell their property, and that all land owners are treated fairly in the process. The current willing seller provision in the bill applies only to the federal portion of funds, thus not guaranteeing that landowners property will not be condemned by state or local governments.
Chambliss #9 Shifts the date that mandatory spending for programs in the bill begins from fiscal year 2002 to fiscal year 2006.
Chenoweth-Hage #25 Strikes a provision in Title III of CARA which opens the door for funding to go to organizations which engage in "public outreach," species re-introduction and numerous other uses not currently in the law.
Chenoweth-Hage #26 Strikes a provision in Title I of the bill which treats one county in California not eligible to receive impact assistance as if it were eligible to receive funds. Thus, the amendment will eliminate this special "carve out" for this one county.
Chenoweth-Hage #27 Establishes a fund under CARA that will be used to pay property taxes in perpetuity for federally acquired property.
Chenoweth-Hage #28 Prohibits funds under CARA from being used for federal law enforcement and eliminates any references to "safety" as one of the purpose of the Act.
Chenoweth-Hage #29 Provides a "lockbox" for 20% of the funds in CARA for debt reduction.
Chenoweth-Hage #45 Prohibits funds from being used in the Act for the establishment or management of a national monument designated after 1995 under the Antiquities Act.
Duncan #23 Changes the distribution of the $450 million funding for the stateside portion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund as follows: 30% divided equally among the states; 40% divided among the states based on population; and 30% divided among the states based on the number of species listed as threatened or endangered in each state.
Duncan #24 Changes the distribution of the $450 million funding for the stateside portion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund as follows: 50% divided equally among the states; and 50% divided among the states based on the number of species listed as threatened or endangered in each state.
Gibbons #44 Allows the Bureau of Land Management to auction public land identified for disposal in their Land Management Plans.
Hastings (WA) #49 Requires that 50% of the federal share of the funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund provided in the bill be used to maintain and manage lands already in federal ownership.
Hastings (WA) #50 WITHDRAWN
Herger #52 WITHDRAWN
Hill (MT) #2 Prohibits any federal acquisition of lands in the State of Montana until the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture issue a plan for acquisition and disposal of lands in the State of Montana.
Hill (MT) #3 Same as Hill #2 except it strikes the mineral interests language.
Hill (MT) #53 Prohibits the Federal government from acquiring land by adverse condemnation. LATE
Kind #41 Calls for the establishment of a sediment and nutrient monitoring network in the Upper Mississippi River Basin for the purpose of reducing sediment and nutrient losses from the surrounding landscape.
Kind #42 Calls for the establishment of a sediment and nutrient modeling program for the purpose of identifying significant sources of sediment and nutrients to the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Moran (KS) #38 Allows funding from the federal portion of the Land and Water Conservation funds to be used for maintenance and capital improvements.
Moran (KS) #39 Clarifies that state-side portion of the Land and Water Conservation funds may be used for maintenance and capital improvements.
Ose #18 Adds a new title at the end of the bill stipulating that amounts made available in the Act shall only be available for grants to states to provide assistance to incorporated cities, and to counties with a population of 1,000,000 or more. The amendment stipulates that amounts available in the bill may not be expended unless: Payment In-Lieu of Taxes (PILT) and Refuge Revenue Sharing payments are fully funded, and payments authorized in previous years have been made; and appropriate House and Senate Committees certify the maintenance and repair backlog on the existing National Parks, National Monuments, National Forests and lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management has been completed.
Ose #19 Adds a new title at the end of the bill stipulating that amounts made available in the Act shall only be available for assistance to incorporated cities, and to counties with a population of 1,000,000 or more. The amendment stipulates that amounts available in the bill may not be expended unless: Payment In-Lieu of Taxes (PILT) and Refuge Revenue Sharing payments are fully funded, and payments authorized in previous years have been made; and appropriate House and Senate Committees certify the maintenance and repair backlog on the existing National Parks, National Monuments, National Forests and lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management has been completed.
Peterson (PA) #4 Provides that a report be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate, and to each authorizing Committee of the House and Senate that describes in detail the projected expenditures by the Federal government for operation and maintenance of the project during the 15-year period following completion of the acquisition or construction. This applies to any acquisition of lands or construction of facilities that will be operated or maintained by a Federal agency.
Peterson (PA) #5 Prohibits amounts available in the bill from being used for acquisition of land by the Federal government except lands located within exterior boundaries designated before the date of enactment. These boundaries include the National Park system, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Forest System, the national system of trails established by the National Trails System Act, federally administered components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system, and the national recreation areas administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Peterson (PA) #6 Prohibits amounts available in the bill to be used for acquisition of land by the Federal government except lands located within exterior boundaries designated before the date of enactment. These boundaries include the National Park System, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Forest System, the national system of trails established by the National Trails System Act, federally administered components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system, and the national recreation areas administered by the Secretary of Agriculture
Peterson (PA) #7 Provides that none of the funds of this Act may be used for land acquisition in a county in which more than 40% of all cumulative lands are owned by Federal, State, or local governments, unless there is a public referendum in accordance with local laws.
Peterson (PA) #8 Provides that none of the funds of this Act may be used for land acquisition in a county in which more than 40% of all cumulative lands are owned by Federal, State, or local governments, unless there is a public referendum in accordance with local laws.
Pombo #21 Prevents non-federal landowners, who become neighbors of the federal government resulting from an action authorized under this legislation, from having those rights that allow the use and enjoyment of their property diminished.
Pombo #22 Increases funding for the Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Act program by $225,000,000 over the current bill; increases funding for the Farmland Protection program by $125,000,000 over the current bill; and increases funding for the Endangered and Threatened Species Recovery program by $100,000,000 over the current bill. These funding increases are offset by reducing the amount of money transferred from the Conservation and Reinvestment Act Fund to the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 100% of the Land and Water Conservation Fund will be made available for grants to the States.
Radanovich #12 Amends Section 5, relating to "the Fund," to require full funding of the amounts authorized for PILT and Refuge Revenue Sharing, if amounts otherwise made available in the bill are insufficient. These payments are made to counties and local governments to support essential local services because the Federal lands are not subject to property tax.
Radanovich #13 Amends Section 5, relating to "the Fund," to require full funding of the amounts authorized in the County Schools Funding Revitalization Act of 1999, which authorized payments to counties for lost receipts due to reduced or eliminated timber harvest on Federal lands. Those payments were authorized subject to appropriation, but no money was made available for them in the Budget Resolution. This amendment ensures that those counties receive that revenue for their schools, before funds are doled out for the other purposes in the bill.
Radanovich #14 Amends Section 5, relating to "the Fund," to require full funding of the amount authorized under Impact Aid, or Title 8 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That program makes payments to local school districts based on Federal ownership of land in the county, such as tribal land or military bases, where the land is untaxable, but where schools must be maintained by the district or state to educate children who live on the Federal land.
Radanovich #15 Amends Section 5, relating to "the Fund," to require full funding for programs that authorize direct federal payments to local governments for the purpose of supporting necessary local services on the basis of the amount of federal and untaxable land located in the county, and requires full funding of PILT, County Schools and Impact Aid prior to outlays of other money from "the Fund."
Regula #33 Prohibits any Social Security surplus funds from being used to finance the CARA fund.
Regula #34 Requires that states have a dedicated State Land Acquisition Fund. Federal funding dedicated to states lacking such plans will be reapportioned to those states that have dedicated state land acquisition funding accounts.
Regula #35 Allows those states which currently allow offshore drilling to receive the majority of the funding under Title I of the bill.
Regula #36 Prohibits any funds from being deposited into the CARA fund if the backlog of deferred maintenance on the nation's public lands, national parks, national wildlife refuges, BLM lands, and national forests exceeds $1 billion.
Regula #37 Limits state uses of Land and Water Conservation funding to the purchase of land.
Shadegg #30 Conditions the annual transfer of funds to the CARA Trust Fund on the following: certification that Congress is on track to eliminate all publicly held debt by 2013; certification that there is not an on-budget deficit; certification that Social Security is not scheduled to run a deficit within the next 5 years; and certification that Medicare is not scheduled to run a deficit within the next 5 years.
Simpson/Walden #51 Requires the Federal government, when acquiring land in a state in which 50% or more of the land in the state is owned by the Federal government, to either dispose of an equal amount of land or obtain the approval of the state via passage of a specific state law before acquiring additional land.
Souder #46 Requires that two-thirds of the land acquired with funds provided under CARA be located east of the Mississippi.
Souder #47 Clarifies that funding provided by CARA is intended to supplement annual appropriations for the National Park Service.
Souder #48 Prohibits funds provided under CARA from being expended for proclamations pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (commonly known as the Antiquities Act), unless the President reports to Congress that programs administered by the National Parks Service are fully funded.
Stearns #16 Requires that no obligated funds may be expended until it is determined that all deferred maintenance requests have been completed on the Federal, state, and local level which would make it a priority to meet prior commitments for current land holdings rather than taking on more projects that will simply add to the maintenance log. The amendment would ensure the most effective conservation program.
Sweeney/McHugh #40 Provides local governments with the opportunity to object to projects listed under state and Federal land acquisition plans under the LWCF. Affected local governments are notified of relevant acquisition proposals and are given 90 days to submit a resolution of disapproval to the Secretary or the Governor, depending upon whether the listing is in the federal or state plan. For state LWCF funding, the amendment requires states to notify each affected local government entity (state political subdivision) of each land acquisition proposal included in the state action agenda and, upon notification, state and local governments have 90 days to transmit to the Governor a resolution of disapproval.
Tancredo #31 Transfers $225 million of the Federal-side land acquisition account in Title II to the Title IV Federal and Indian Lands Restoration Fund account.
Tancredo #32 Transfers $100 million (23%) of the Federal-side land acquisition account in Title II to Title IV to carry out the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978.
Thornberry #43 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Very similar to H.R. 701 except that it strengthens private property rights and PILT programs, addresses public maintenance problems in public parks, and makes the funding discretionary for the first five years that the bill is enacted.
Udall (CO) #17 Amends Section 702 of the bill to add the Urban and Community Forestry Assistance Program to the list of programs for which the Secretary of Agriculture could use funds provided under section 5(b)(7).
Young (AK)/Miller(CA)/Tauzin/Dingell/ Boehlert/John/Markey/Pallone #1 Eliminates the perception that the bill includes incentives for new oil and gas drilling by removing the 5-year update on the state allocation formula; defines the already existing program requirement within the bill; and creates a program for state projects of regional or national significance to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in a competitive program consisting only of projects requested by the affected states.
* Summaries derived from information submitted by the amendment sponsors.
