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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a)Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
(b)Deposits.--There shall be deposited in the Fund the following revenues and collections:
(1) All proceeds (except so much thereof as may be otherwise obligated, credited, or paid under authority of the provisions of law set forth in section 572(a) or 574(a) to (c) of title 40 or under authority of any appropriation Act that appropriates an amount, to be derived from proceeds from the transfer of excess property and the disposal of surplus property, for necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the utilization and disposal of excess and surplus property) received from any disposal of surplus real property and related personal property under chapter 5 of title 40, notwithstanding any provision of law that such proceeds shall be credited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Nothing in this chapter shall affect existing laws or regulations concerning disposal of real or personal surplus property to schools, hospitals, and States and their political subdivisions.
(2) The amounts provided for in section 200310 of this title.
(c)Authorization of appropriations.--
(1)In general.--In addition to the sum of the revenues and collections estimated by the Secretary to be deposited in the Fund pursuant to this section, there are authorized to be appropriated annually to the Fund out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated such amounts as are necessary to make the income of the Fund not less than $900,000,000 for each fiscal year.
(2)Receipts under Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.--To the extent that amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) are not sufficient to make the total annual income of the Fund equivalent to the amounts provided in paragraph (1), an amount sufficient to cover the remainder shall be credited to the Fund from revenues due and payable to the United States for deposit in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.).
[(3) Repealed.Pub.L. 116-152, § 3(b)(1), Aug. 4, 2020, 134 Stat. 687]
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - 54 U.S.C. § 200302 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 54. National Park Service and Related Programs § 200302. Establishment of Land and Water Conservation Fund - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-54-national-park-service-and-related-programs/54-usc-sect-200302/
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