Sec. 428.
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Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2026 pursuant to subsection
(a)of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and accounts specified, for the projects specified under the accounts titled Land Acquisition Projects and Forest Legacy Projects in the Forest Service, and in the amounts specified in the table titled Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026 in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): That the matter preceding this proviso shall not apply to amounts in any account titled Provided, Land Acquisition Projects in the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or National Park Service in such table. Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations project lists with project data sheets as described in subsection (c)(4), which shall include a sufficient number of projects to total the amounts for the account titled Land Acquisition Projects for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, as specified in the table titled Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026 in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): That on the date on which the Secretary of the Interior provides to the Committees on Appropriations such project lists with such project data sheets, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations lists of supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition projects for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that total no less than half the full amount allocated to each such account for that land management Agency in the table titled Provided, Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026 in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): That expenditure of funds under this paragraph is a reprogramming and shall be subject to section 421 of this Act. Provided further, Within 45 days of the date on which a reprogramming is approved pursuant to the last proviso in subparagraph (A), the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2026 pursuant to subsection
(a)of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the account titled Land Acquisition Projects for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, as applicable, in the amounts specified in the table titled Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026 in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act) and for the projects included in the project lists approved by the Committees on Appropriations in accordance with subparagraph (A). If any portion of a project specified under the accounts titled Land Acquisition Projects and Forest Legacy Projects in the Forest Service in the table titled Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026 in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act) or for the projects included in the project lists approved by the Committees on Appropriations in accordance with subsection (a)(2)(A) is intended to be carried out within the Federal land unit or project boundary as specified in such table (or any prior allocation table incorporated by reference into a prior Act, as applicable) or project list but outside the specific tracts for the project described in the corresponding project data sheet submitted to the Committees on Appropriations required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, or paragraph (2), not later than 30 days before the date on which the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture expends amounts on the project, the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall provide written notice to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of such expenditure. Neither the President nor his designee may allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal year under subsection
(a)of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts and for projects and activities that are allocated by subsection (a)(1) or in accordance with subsection (a)(2) of this section: That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing administration of programs allocated funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section. Provided, Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a list of supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy Projects at the Forest Service that are in addition to the Submission of Cost Estimates required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that total no less than half the full amount allocated to each such account for the Forest Service under the allocations submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code: That in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant to subsection
(a)of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, are no longer needed because a project has been completed or can no longer be executed, such amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for reallocation in the annual budget submission. Provided, Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a list of supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition projects at the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management that are in addition to the Submission of Cost Estimates required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that total the full amount allocated to each such account for that land management Agency in the table titled Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026 in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): That in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant to subsection
(a)of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, are no longer needed because a project has been completed or can no longer be executed, such amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for reallocation in the annual budget submission. Provided, The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy projects in the Submission of Cost Estimates required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, in the project lists provided under subsection (a)(2), in the list of supplementary allocations provided under subsection (a)(2), and on the lists of supplementary allocations required by paragraphs
(1)and
(2)shall be comprised only of projects for which a willing seller has been identified and for which an appraisal or market research has been initiated. Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on Appropriations project data sheets in the same format and containing the same level of detailed information that is found on such sheets in the Budget Justifications annually submitted by the Secretary of the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects in the Submission of Cost Estimates required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the same format and containing the same level of detailed information that is found on such sheets submitted to the Committees on Appropriations pursuant to section 427 of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–94 ) for the list of supplementary allocations required by paragraphs
(1)and (2). The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and activities funded by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and the status of balances of projects and activities funded by the Land and Water Conservation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section, including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated funds. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2025 pursuant to subsection
(a)of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and accounts specified, for the projects specified, under the accounts specified, and in the amounts specified in the table titled Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2025 Revisions in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations project lists with project data sheets, which shall include a sufficient number of projects to total the amounts for the account titled National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Education, and U.S. Forest Service: That expenditure of funds under this paragraph is a reprogramming and shall be subject to section 421 of this Act. Provided, Within 45 days of the date on which a reprogramming is approved pursuant to the last proviso in subparagraph (1), the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2026 pursuant to subsection
(c)of 200402 of title 54, United States Code, to the account titled National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Education, and U.S. Forest Service as applicable, in the amounts specified and for the projects included in the project lists approved by the Committees on Appropriations in accordance with subparagraph (1).
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