103D CONGRESS 2d Session SENATE PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES ACT REPORT 103-231 FEBRUARY 25 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 22), 1994.-Ordered to be printed Mr. JOHNSTON, from the Committee on Energy and Natural REPORT [To accompany S. 455] The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (S. 455) to amend title 31, United States Code, to increase Federal payments to units of general local government for entitlement lands, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass. The amendments are as follows: 1. On page 2, lines 6 through 19, strike paragraphs (1) and (2) in their entirety and insert in lieu thereof the following: (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking "75 cents for each acre of entitlement land" and inserting "93 cents during fiscal year 1995, $1.11 during fiscal year 1996, $1.29 during fiscal year 1997, $1.47 during fiscal year 1998, and $1.65 during fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, for each acre of entitlement land"; and (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking "10 cents for each acre of entitlement land" and inserting "12 cents during fiscal year 1995, 15 cents during fiscal year 1996, 17 cents during fiscal year 1997, 20 cents during fiscal year 1998, and 22 cents during fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, for each acre of entitlement land". 2. On page 4, lines 13 through 18, strike section 4 in its entirety and insert in lieu thereof the following: "SEC. 4. LAND EXCHANGES. "Section 6902 of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 103D CONGRESS 2d Session REPORT SENATE 103-230 BISTI/DE-NA-ZIN WILDERNESS EXPANSION AND FOSSIL FOREST PROTECTION ACT FEBRUARY 25 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 22), 1994.-Ordered to be printed Mr. JOHNSTON, from the Committee on Energy and Natural REPORT [To accompany S. 313] The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (S. 313), to amend the San Juan Basin Wilderness Protection Act of 1984 to designate additional lands as wilderness and to establish the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass. The amendments are as follows: 1. On page 3, line 15, strike the words "The lands" and insert in lieu thereof “Subject to valid existing rights, the lands”. 2. On page 3, line 20, strike the paragraph in its entirety and insert (2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue coal leases in New Mexico in exchange for any preference right coal lease application within the area described in section 2(a)(3). Such exchanges shall be made in accordance with applicable existing laws and regulations relating to coal leases after a determination has been made by the Secretary that the applicant is entitled to a preference right lease and that the exchange is in the public interest. 3. On page 5, line 16, strike the words "exchanged for lands" and insert in lieu thereof "exchanged for lands within New Mexico". 4. On page 8, line 1, strike the words "The lands" and insert in lieu thereof "Subject to valid existing rights, the lands". |