S.Amdt. 1656

SA 1656. Mr. LANKFORD (for himself and Mr. Johnson) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1617 proposed by Mr.
Gardner (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Daines, Mr. Warner, Mr. Portman,
Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Alexander, Mr. King, Mr. Burr, Mr. Tester, Ms.
Collins, Mr. Udall, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Blunt, Ms. Harris,
Mrs. Capito, Mr. Peters, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. McSally, Mr.
Casey, Mr. Graham, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr.
Sanders, Mr. Booker, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Wyden, Mr.
Kaine, Ms. Sinema, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Coons, Ms. Smith, Ms. Hassan, Mrs.
Gillibrand, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr.
Jones, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Brown, Ms. Hirono,
Ms. Warren, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Stabenow, Mr.
Leahy, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Markey, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Cramer,
and Mr. Schatz) to the bill H.R. 1957, to amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to modernize and improve the Internal Revenue Service, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 3 of the amendment, strike line 22 and
all that follows through page 5, line 5, and insert the
following:
``(b) Funding.--
``(1) In general.--The Fund shall consist of such amounts
as are--
``(A) appropriated to the Fund pursuant to section
200303(d); and
``(B) transferred to the Fund pursuant to section
200310(c).
``(2) Availability.--Amounts in the Fund shall remain
available until expended.
On page 11 of the amendment, between lines 16 and 17,
insert the following:
(d) Transfers to National Parks and Public Land Legacy
Restoration Fund.--
(1) In general.--Section 200310 of title 54, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(c) Transfers to National Parks and Public Land Legacy
Restoration Fund.--For each fiscal year in which a Federal
landholding agency has a deferred maintenance backlog in
excess of $2,000,000,000, if discretionary appropriations (as
defined in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c))) were
made available for the acquisition of land, water, or an
interest in land or water under section 200306(a)(2) during
the preceding fiscal year (referred to in this subsection as
the `transfer amount')--
``(1) the amount made available from the Fund under section
200303(a) for the applicable fiscal year for the acquisition
of land, water, or an interest in land or water under section
200306(a)(2) shall be reduced by the transfer amount; and
``(2) there shall be transferred from the Fund to the
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for
the applicable fiscal year an amount equal to the transfer
amount.''.
(2) Conforming amendment.--Section 200302(b)(2) of title
54, United States Code, is amended by striking ``200310'' and
inserting ``200310(a)''.
On page 14 of the amendment, strike line 9 and insert the
following:
expenditures.
``(d) Availability of Unobligated Balance.--Out of amounts
deposited in the Fund under section 200302 for any fiscal
year prior to fiscal year 2020, there is authorized to be
appropriated for deposit in the National Parks and Public
Land Legacy Restoration Fund $9,500,000,000.''.
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