H.R. 1080 — Introduced in House

I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1080 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 12, 2013 Ms. Bordallo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL 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. 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. . 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. .