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To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements under such Act for land management related to Department of Defense readiness activities and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency cooperation in conservation programs to avoid or reduce adverse impacts on military readiness activities.

H.R. 1080 · 113th Congress · Mar 12, 2013 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Cooperative agreements under Sikes Act for land management related to Department of Defense readiness activities

(a)
Multiyear agreements To fund long-Term management— Subsection (b) of section 103A of the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. 670c–1) is amended—
(1)
by inserting “(1)” before “Funds”; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(2) In the case of a cooperative agreement under subsection (a)(2), funds referred to in paragraph (1)—

“(A) may be paid in a lump sum and include an amount intended to cover the future costs of the natural resource maintenance and improvement activities provided for under the agreement; and

“(B) may be invested by the recipient in accordance with the recipient’s own guidelines for the management and investment of financial assets, and any interest or income derived from such investment may be applied for the same purposes as the principal.”

(b)
Availability of funds and relation to other laws— Subsection (c) of such section is amended to read as follows:

“(c) Availability of funds and relation to other laws

“(1) Cooperative agreements and interagency agreements entered into under this section shall be subject to the availability of funds.

“(2) Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, a cooperative agreement under this section may be used to acquire property or services for the direct benefit or use of the United States Government.”

Sec. 2 Facilitation of interagency cooperation in conservation programs of the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Interior to avoid or reduce adverse impacts on military readiness activities

Section 2684a of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
(1)
by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections (i) and (j); and
(2)
by inserting after subsection (g) the following new subsection (h):

“(h) Interagency cooperation in conservation programs To avoid or reduce adverse impacts on military readiness activities—In order to facilitate interagency cooperation and enhance the effectiveness of actions that will protect both the environment and military readiness, the recipient of funds provided pursuant an agreement under this section or under the Sikes Act (16 U.S.C. et seq.) may, with regard to the lands and waters within the scope of the agreement, use such funds to satisfy any matching funds or cost-sharing requirement of any conservation program of the Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior notwithstanding any limitation of such program on the source of matching or cost-sharing funds.”