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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 37 — Youth Conservation Corps and Public Lands Corps

§ 1729. Funding

Statutory text

(a)

Cost sharing

(1)

Projects by qualified youth or conservation corps

The Secretary is authorized to pay not more than 75 percent of the costs of any appropriate conservation project carried out pursuant to this subchapter on public lands by a qualified youth or conservation corps. The remaining 25 percent of the costs of such a project may be provided from nonfederal sources in the form of funds, services, facilities, materials, equipment, or any combination of the foregoing. No cost sharing shall be required in the case of any appropriate conservation project carried out on Indian lands or Hawaiian home lands under this subchapter.

(2)

Public Lands Corps projects

The Secretary is authorized to accept donations of funds, services, facilities, materials, or equipment for the purposes of operating the Public Lands Corps and carrying out appropriate conservation projects by the Corps. However, nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require any cost sharing for any project carried out directly by the Corps.

(b)

Funds available under National and Community Service Act

In order to carry out the Public Lands Corps or to support resource assistants and qualified youth or conservation corps under this subchapter, the Secretary shall be eligible to apply for and receive assistance under section 121(b) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 [42 U.S.C. 12571(b)].

(c)

Other funds

Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 1730 of this title are in addition to amounts allocated to the Public Lands Corps through other Federal programs or projects.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 91–378 title II § 212 · 84 Stat. 794

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 1729

    Pub. L. 91–378, title II, § 212, formerly § 210, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 105(6), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 853

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 91–378, title II, § 212, formerly § 210, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 105(6), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 853

  2. Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005

    Pub. L. 109–154 § 2(g)(4)(A) · 119 Stat. 2890

    Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 1729(a)

    Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(A), substituted “Secretary is” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each” in pars. (1) and (2)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(A), substituted “Secretary is” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each” in pars. (1) and (2).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) in subsection (a)— (i) in paragraph (1), by striking “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each” and inserting “Secretary is”; and (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each” and inserting “Secretary is”; and

  3. Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005

    Pub. L. 109–154 § 2(g)(4)(B) · 119 Stat. 2890

    Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 1729(b)

    Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(B), substituted “Secretary” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(B), substituted “Secretary” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (B) in subsection (b), by striking “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture” and inserting “Secretary”.

  4. Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005

    Pub. L. 109–154 § 2(f)(1) · 119 Stat. 2890

    Added · 16 U.S.C. § 1729(c)

    Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(f)(1), added subsec. (c)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(f)(1), added subsec. (c).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in section 210 (16 U.S.C. 1729), by adding at the end the following: “(c) Other Funds.— Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 211 are in addition to amounts allocated to the Public Lands Corps through other Federal programs or projects.” ; and

  5. John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act

    Pub. L. 116–9 § 9003(f)(3) · 133 Stat. 580

    Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 1729(c)

    Pub. L. 116–9, § 9003(f)(3), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 1730 of this title

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–9, § 9003(f)(3), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 1730 of this title.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (3) in subsection (c) of section 212 (as so redesignated), by striking “211” and inserting “213”.

4 of 5 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments2005–2019 · 2 rounds

2019

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–9, § 9003(f)(3), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 1730 of this title.

2005

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(A), substituted “Secretary is” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each” in pars. (1) and (2).

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(B), substituted “Secretary” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(f)(1), added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an Effective Date of 1993 Amendment note under section 1701 of this title.

Credits

1993–2019 · 3 acts
  1. 1993Pub. L. 91–378, title II, § 212, formerly § 210, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 105(6), , 107 Stat. 853
  2. 2005amended Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(f)(1), (g)(4), , 119 Stat. 2892, 2893
  3. 2019renumbered § 212 and amended Pub. L. 116–9, title IX, § 9003(f)(1), (3), , 133 Stat. 835.
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(Pub. L. 91–378, title II, § 212, formerly § 210, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 105(6), , 107 Stat. 853; amended Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(f)(1), (g)(4), , 119 Stat. 2892, 2893; renumbered § 212 and amended Pub. L. 116–9, title IX, § 9003(f)(1), (3), , 133 Stat. 835.)

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