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PUBLIC LAW 94-422—SEPT. 28, 1976

Public Law 94-422
94th Congress

Sept. 28, 1976
[S. 327]

An Act

To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, to establish the National Historic Preservation Fund, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, amendment; National Historic Preservation Fund, establishment.

TITLE I—LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND

Sec. 101. The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 987), as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601-4 et seq.), is further amended as follows:

(1) Amend section 2 to read as follows:

Sec. 2. 16 USC 460l-5.Separate Fund.—During the period ending September 30, 1989, there shall be covered into the land and water conservation fund in the Treasury of the United States, which fund is hereby established and is hereinafter referred to as the ‘fund’, the following revenues and collections:

“(a) Surplus Property Sales.—All proceeds (except so much thereof as may be otherwise obligated, credited, or paid under authority of those provisions of law set forth in section 485(b)(e), title 40, United States Code, or the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1963 (76 Stat. 725) or in any later appropriation Act) hereafter received from any disposal of surplus real property and related personal property under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended,40 USC 471 note. notwithstanding any provision of law that such proceeds shall be credited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Nothing in this Act shall affect existing laws or regulations concerning disposal of real or personal surplus property to schools, hospitals, and States and their political subdivisions.

“(b) Motorboat Fuels Tax.—The amounts provided for in section 201 of this Act.16 USC 460l-11.

“(c)(1) Appropriation authorization.Other Revenues.—In addition to the sum of the revenues and collections estimated by the Secretary of the Interior to be covered into the fund pursuant to this section, as amended, 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 $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $600,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $750,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $900,000,000 for fiscal year 1980 and for each fiscal year thereafter through September 30, 1989.

“(2) To the extent that any such sums so appropriated are not sufficient to make the total annual income of the fund equivalent to the amounts provided in clause (1), 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, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.): Provided, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of this Act,16 USC 460l-6. moneys covered into the fund under