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GAO-20-175R 1 (2019-12-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaji0001 and id is 1 raw text is: _G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 December 5, 2019 The Honorable Lisa Murkowski Chairman Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate Land and Water Conservation Fund Act: Forest Service Has Not Taken Steps to Ensure Compliance with Limitation on Land Acquisition Dear Madam Chairman: The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is a U.S. Treasury fund used by four federal land management agencies for several purposes, including conserving natural resources and enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities on federal, state, and private lands. These agencies-the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service in the Department of the Interior-use LWCF funding to support a variety of activities, such as land acquisition, building recreational facilities, and conserving wildlife habitat. The LWCF Act of 1965, as amended, authorizes the LWCF to accrue a minimum of $900 million annually,' and nearly all of its funding comes from royalties and other fees that companies pay on oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf.2 In our May 2019 report on the LWCF, we found that in fiscal years 2014 through 2018, Congress appropriated nearly $1.9 billion from the LWCF. About half of this amount was directed to federal land acquisition across the four federal land management agencies and half 154 U.S.C. § 200302(c)(1).The LWCF was permanently reauthorized on March 12, 2019. John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, Pub. L. No. 116-9, § 3001 (a), 133 Stat. 754 (2019). 2The Outer Continental Shelf is outside the territorial jurisdiction of all 50 states but within the jurisdiction and control of the U.S. federal government. It consists of submerged federal lands, generally extending seaward between 3 geographical miles and 200 nautical miles off the U.S. coastline. 3GAO, Land and Water Conservation Fund: Variety of Programs Supported, but Improvements in Data Collection Needed at BLM, GAO-1 9-346 (Washington, D.C.: May 31, 2019). GAO-20-175R Land and Water Conservation Fund Act Page 1

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