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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§1729 Funding

Title 16 › CHAPTER 37 — YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS AND PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › SUBCHAPTER II — PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › § 1729

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can pay up to 75% of the cost for conservation projects on public lands done by a qualified youth or conservation corps. The other 25% must come from nonfederal sources, like money, services, facilities, materials, or equipment. No cost sharing is required for projects on Indian lands or Hawaiian home lands. The Secretary may accept donations to run the Public Lands Corps and its projects, and projects done directly by the Corps do not require cost sharing. The Secretary can apply for help under section 121(b) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 [42 U.S.C. 12571(b)]. Money authorized under section 1730 is in addition to other federal funding for the Corps.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §1729

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(a)Cost sharing
(1)Projects by qualified youth or conservation corps
The Secretary is 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 is 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 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)].
(c)Other funds
Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 1730 of this title are in addition to amounts allocated to the Public Lands Corps through other Federal programs or projects.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2019—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–9, § 9003(f)(3), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 1730 of this title. 2005—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(A), substituted “Secretary is” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each” in pars. (1) and (2). Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(4)(B), substituted “Secretary” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(f)(1), added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1993 Amendment note under section 1701 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 1729

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110