§ 1729. — Funding.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC1729]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 37--YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS AND PUBLIC LANDS CORPS
SUBCHAPTER II--PUBLIC LANDS CORPS
Sec. 1729. Funding
(a) Cost sharing
(1) Projects by qualified youth or conservation corps
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture
are each 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 of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture
are each 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 of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture 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)].
(Pub. L. 91-378, title II, Sec. 210, as added Pub. L. 103-82, title I,
Sec. 105(6), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 853.)
