Title I: Land and Water Conservation Fund - Provides, under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, for an increase in the sum authorized to be appropriated for the Land and Water Conservation Fund in the Department of the Treasury. Sets such an increased sum at not less than $300,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1971-1974, and not less than $1,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years thereafter through fiscal year 1989.
Provides that to the extent that any such sums so appropriated are not sufficient to make the total annual income of the fund $300,000,000 or $1,000,000,000 for each of such fiscal years, an amount sufficient to cover the remainder thereof 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.
Provides for the allotment by the President of land and water conservation funds to conserve endangered or threatened species of fish or wildlife or plants.
Title II: National Historic Preservation Fund - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to States: (1) for the preparation of statewide historic preservation plans and surveys and project plans; (2) for projects to preserve historic properties of national significance; (3) for projects to demonstrate methods and techniques of historic preservation; and (4) for projects to restore specified historic properties for use as meeting houses in connection with the Nation's bicentennial.
States that any grant made pursuant to this Act may not exceed 70 percent of the cost of a project. Establishes the National Historic Preservation Fund in the Treasury of the United States. Authorizes to be paid into such fund from revenues due and payable to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act the sum of $150,000,000 annually.
Title III : Provides that any appointment to specified Federal offices after the date of enactment of this Act shall be made by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. States that such offices are the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the Director of the National Park Service, the Director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, the Commissioner of the Bureau Reclamation, and the Governor of American (Eastern) Samoa.
Title IV: States Oil Shale Funds - Provides that all moneys paid to any State from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of oil shale in public lands may be used by such State and its subdivisions for planning, construction, and maintenance of public facilities, and provision of public services, as the legislature of the State may direct giving priority to those State subdivisions socially or economically impacted by the development of the resource.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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