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22 119THCONGRESS
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44 STSESSION S. 1083
55 To provide for certain improvements to the housing and workforce programs
66 of Federal land management agencies, and for other purposes.
77 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
88 MARCH14, 2025
99 Mr. B
1010 ARRASSO(for himself, Mr. DAINES, and Mr. KING) introduced the fol-
1111 lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on En-
1212 ergy and Natural Resources
1313 A BILL
1414 To provide for certain improvements to the housing and
1515 workforce programs of Federal land management agen-
1616 cies, and for other purposes.
1717 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1818 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1919 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
2020 (a) S
2121 HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
2222 ‘‘Land Manager Housing and Workforce Improvement Act 5
2323 of 2025’’. 6
2424 (b) T
2525 ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 7
2626 this Act is as follows: 8
2727 Sec. 1. Short title.
2828 Sec. 2. Definitions.
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3232 TITLE I—EXPANDING AUTHORITY
3333 Sec. 101. Prioritizing National Park Service workforce housing.
3434 Sec. 102. Authorizing the National Park Service to address workforce housing
3535 off-park.
3636 Sec. 103. Expanding National Park Service rental options.
3737 Sec. 104. Leveraging National Park Service rental receipts for workforce hous-
3838 ing programming.
3939 Sec. 105. Empowering the Forest Service to address workforce housing needs.
4040 TITLE II—EXPANDING PARTNERSHIP CAPACITY
4141 Sec. 201. Engaging partners to address National Park Service workforce hous-
4242 ing.
4343 Sec. 202. Encouraging public-private cooperative management.
4444 Sec. 203. Leveraging philanthropic support to address National Park Service
4545 workforce housing.
4646 TITLE III—SUPPORTING WORKFORCE
4747 Sec. 301. Supporting the land manager workforce.
4848 Sec. 302. Supporting the seasonal National Park Service workforce.
4949 TITLE IV—REPORTS AND OVERSIGHT
5050 Sec. 401. Quantifying the workforce housing needs of land managers.
5151 Sec. 402. Conducting oversight on the housing programming of land managers.
5252 Sec. 403. Justifying emergency spending.
5353 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
5454 1
5555 In this Act: 2
5656 (1) A
5757 PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -3
5858 GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-4
5959 gress’’ means— 5
6060 (A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 6
6161 Resources of the Senate; 7
6262 (B) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri-8
6363 tion, and Forestry of the Senate; 9
6464 (C) the Committee on Appropriations of 10
6565 the Senate; 11
6666 (D) the Committee on Natural Resources 12
6767 of the House of Representatives; 13
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7171 (E) the Committee on Agriculture of the 1
7272 House of Representatives; and 2
7373 (F) the Committee on Appropriations of 3
7474 the House of Representatives. 4
7575 (2) C
7676 OVERED AGENCIES .—The term ‘‘covered 5
7777 agencies’’ means— 6
7878 (A) the National Park Service; 7
7979 (B) the Bureau of Land Management; 8
8080 (C) the United States Fish and Wildlife 9
8181 Service; and 10
8282 (D) the Forest Service. 11
8383 (3) S
8484 ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 12
8585 the Secretary of the Interior. 13
8686 TITLE I—EXPANDING 14
8787 AUTHORITY 15
8888 SEC. 101. PRIORITIZING NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WORK-16
8989 FORCE HOUSING. 17
9090 Section 103502(a)(3) of title 54, United States Code, 18
9191 is amended— 19
9292 (1) by inserting ‘‘quarters for field employees 20
9393 (as those terms are defined in section 101331),’’ 21
9494 after ‘‘prioritize’’; and 22
9595 (2) by inserting a comma after ‘‘facilities’’. 23
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9999 SEC. 102. AUTHORIZING THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO 1
100100 ADDRESS WORKFORCE HOUSING OFF-PARK. 2
101101 Section 100901 of title 54, United States Code, is 3
102102 amended by adding at the end the following: 4
103103 ‘‘(i) A
104104 CQUISITION OFLAND FORADMINISTRATION OF 5
105105 S
106106 YSTEMUNITS.— 6
107107 ‘‘(1) I
108108 N GENERAL.—To facilitate the adminis-7
109109 tration of a System unit, the Secretary may acquire, 8
110110 by donation, exchange, or transfer from another 9
111111 Federal agency, not more than 20 acres of land or 10
112112 interests in land, cumulatively, within the vicinity of 11
113113 the System unit boundary for the development, con-12
114114 struction, maintenance, or operation of quarters for 13
115115 field employees (as those terms are defined in sec-14
116116 tion 101331) for the System unit. 15
117117 ‘‘(2) M
118118 ANAGEMENT.— 16
119119 ‘‘(A) I
120120 N GENERAL.—With respect to any 17
121121 land or interest in land acquired by the Sec-18
122122 retary under paragraph (1)— 19
123123 ‘‘(i) the land or interest in land shall 20
124124 not— 21
125125 ‘‘(I) be administered as part of 22
126126 the System; or 23
127127 ‘‘(II) be subject to the laws (in-24
128128 cluding regulations) governing the as-25
129129 sociated System unit; but 26
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133133 ‘‘(ii) the Secretary shall— 1
134134 ‘‘(I) have the authority to super-2
135135 vise, manage, and control the land; 3
136136 and 4
137137 ‘‘(II) issue such rules and regula-5
138138 tions as the Secretary may determine 6
139139 to be necessary and proper for the use 7
140140 and management of the land. 8
141141 ‘‘(B) A
142142 UTHORIZATIONS.—The Secretary 9
143143 may grant exclusive privileges, leases, and per-10
144144 mits for the use of land acquired under para-11
145145 graph (1) and enter into contracts relating to 12
146146 such authorizations as authorized under this 13
147147 title, notwithstanding any restriction on such 14
148148 authorizations to land within a System unit 15
149149 boundary. 16
150150 ‘‘(3) D
151151 ISPOSAL.—If the Secretary determines 17
152152 that any land or interest in land acquired under 18
153153 paragraph (1) no longer supports the administration 19
154154 of the System unit— 20
155155 ‘‘(A) the Secretary may determine the land 21
156156 and any improvements to the land to be excess 22
157157 property for disposal; and 23
158158 ‘‘(B) the proceeds from the disposal of ex-24
159159 cess property under subparagraph (A) shall be 25
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163163 retained by the Secretary and deposited in the 1
164164 special fund established for the development, 2
165165 construction, maintenance, or operation of 3
166166 quarters for field employees (as so defined) de-4
167167 scribed in section 101338(b), to be expended by 5
168168 the Secretary without further appropriation.’’. 6
169169 SEC. 103. EXPANDING NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RENTAL 7
170170 OPTIONS. 8
171171 Section 101336 of title 54, United States Code, is 9
172172 amended, in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘management, 10
173173 repair, and maintenance of field employee quarters’’ and 11
174174 inserting ‘‘development, construction, maintenance, or op-12
175175 eration of quarters for field employees’’. 13
176176 SEC. 104. LEVERAGING NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RENTAL 14
177177 RECEIPTS FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING PRO-15
178178 GRAMMING. 16
179179 Section 101338 of title 54, United States Code, is 17
180180 amended by adding at the end the following: 18
181181 ‘‘(c) U
182182 SE OFSPECIALFUND BYNATIONALPARK 19
183183 S
184184 ERVICE.—Amounts deposited by the Service in the spe-20
185185 cial fund described in subsection (b) and established under 21
186186 section 320 of Public Law 98–473 (5 U.S.C. 5911 note) 22
187187 shall be available for the development, construction, main-23
188188 tenance, or operation of quarters for field employees at 24
189189 System units.’’. 25
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193193 SEC. 105. EMPOWERING THE FOREST SERVICE TO ADDRESS 1
194194 WORKFORCE HOUSING NEEDS. 2
195195 (a) U
196196 SE OFFORESTSERVICESTRUCTURES OR IM-3
197197 PROVEMENTS.—Section 7 of the Act of April 24, 1950 4
198198 (commonly known as the ‘‘Granger-Thye Act’’) (64 Stat. 5
199199 84, chapter 97; 16 U.S.C. 580d), is amended by striking 6
200200 ‘‘thirty years as determined by him’’ and inserting ‘‘30 7
201201 years, or in the case of a permit for workforce housing 8
202202 and related infrastructure, 50 years, as determined to be 9
203203 appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture’’. 10
204204 (b) C
205205 ONVEYANCES OF FORESTSERVICEADMINIS-11
206206 TRATIVESITES.—Title V of the Forest Service Facility 12
207207 Realignment and Enhancement Act of 2005 (16 U.S.C. 13
208208 580d note; Public Law 109–54) is amended— 14
209209 (1) in section 503— 15
210210 (A) by striking subsection (f); and 16
211211 (B) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-17
212212 section (f); and 18
213213 (2) in section 504(c)(2), by striking ‘‘by com-19
214214 petitive sale’’ and inserting ‘‘by soliciting not fewer 20
215215 than 2 competitive bids’’. 21
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219219 TITLE II—EXPANDING 1
220220 PARTNERSHIP CAPACITY 2
221221 SEC. 201. ENGAGING PARTNERS TO ADDRESS NATIONAL 3
222222 PARK SERVICE WORKFORCE HOUSING. 4
223223 Section 101701(a) of title 54, United States Code, 5
224224 is amended— 6
225225 (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting, ‘‘, including 7
226226 projects for quarters for field employees (as those 8
227227 terms are defined in section 101331),’’ after ‘‘re-9
228228 sponsibilities of the Secretary’’; and 10
229229 (2) in paragraph (2)— 11
230230 (A) by inserting ‘‘, Tribal,’’ after ‘‘State’’; 12
231231 (B) by inserting ‘‘(including an organiza-13
232232 tion that has a philanthropic agreement to 14
233233 fundraise or otherwise generate donations on 15
234234 behalf of, or for the benefit of, the Service)’’ 16
235235 after ‘‘organization’’; and 17
236236 (C) by inserting ‘‘(including an individual 18
237237 that has a philanthropic agreement to fundraise 19
238238 or otherwise generate donations on behalf of, or 20
239239 for the benefit of, the Service)’’ after ‘‘indi-21
240240 vidual’’. 22
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244244 SEC. 202. ENCOURAGING PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATIVE 1
245245 MANAGEMENT. 2
246246 Section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, is 3
247247 amended to read as follows: 4
248248 ‘‘§ 101703. Cooperative management agreements 5
249249 ‘‘(a) D
250250 EFINITION OFSTATE.—In this section, the 6
251251 term ‘State’ means each of the several States, the District 7
252252 of Columbia, and each territory of the United States. 8
253253 ‘‘(b) C
254254 OOPERATIVEMANAGEMENTAGREEMENTS.— 9
255255 ‘‘(1) I
256256 N GENERAL.—The Secretary, in accord-10
257257 ance with the laws generally applicable to System 11
258258 units and under such terms and conditions as the 12
259259 Secretary considers appropriate, may enter into a 13
260260 cooperative management agreement with a State, In-14
261261 dian Tribe, or local government with park land adja-15
262262 cent to a System unit, if the agreement would pro-16
263263 vide for more effective and efficient management of 17
264264 a System unit and the adjacent non-Federal park 18
265265 land. 19
266266 ‘‘(2) N
267267 O TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE RE -20
268268 SPONSIBILITIES.—The Secretary may not transfer 21
269269 administration responsibilities for any System unit 22
270270 under this subsection. 23
271271 ‘‘(c) P
272272 ROVISION OFGOODS ANDSERVICES.— 24
273273 ‘‘(1) I
274274 N GENERAL.—The Secretary may provide 25
275275 or acquire goods and services on a reimbursable 26
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279279 basis as part of a cooperative management agree-1
280280 ment entered into under subsection (b). 2
281281 ‘‘(2) R
282282 ETENTION OF FUNDS .—The Secretary 3
283283 may retain and expend any funds received under 4
284284 this section without further appropriation. 5
285285 ‘‘(d) C
286286 O-LOCATION.—The Secretary and a State, In-6
287287 dian Tribe, or local government may co-locate in offices 7
288288 or facilities owned or leased by either party as part of a 8
289289 cooperative management agreement entered into under 9
290290 subsection (b). 10
291291 ‘‘(e) E
292292 MPLOYEES.— 11
293293 ‘‘(1) A
294294 SSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEE .—The Sec-12
295295 retary may arrange an assignment under section 13
296296 3372 of title 5 of a Federal employee or an employee 14
297297 of a State, Indian Tribe, or local government, as 15
298298 mutually agreed on, for work, on the applicable Fed-16
299299 eral, State, local, or Tribal park land covered by the 17
300300 cooperative management agreement. 18
301301 ‘‘(2) E
302302 XTENSION OF ASSIGNMENT .—An assign-19
303303 ment under paragraph (1) may be extended if the 20
304304 Secretary and the State, Indian Tribe, or local gov-21
305305 ernment determine the extension to be mutually ben-22
306306 eficial.’’. 23
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310310 SEC. 203. LEVERAGING PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT TO AD-1
311311 DRESS NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WORK-2
312312 FORCE HOUSING. 3
313313 Section 103501(c)(3) of title 54, United States Code, 4
314314 is amended by striking ‘‘(including funds and fairly valued 5
315315 durable goods and materials)’’ and inserting ‘‘(including 6
316316 any combination of cash, fairly valued services, and dura-7
317317 ble goods and materials)’’. 8
318318 TITLE III—SUPPORTING 9
319319 WORKFORCE 10
320320 SEC. 301. SUPPORTING THE LAND MANAGER WORKFORCE. 11
321321 (a) I
322322 NGENERAL.—The Secretary or the Secretary of 12
323323 Agriculture, as applicable, may recruit and directly ap-13
324324 point qualified individuals into the competitive service who 14
325325 are certified, in accordance with procedures established by 15
326326 the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as applica-16
327327 ble, as maintaining a permanent and exclusive residence 17
328328 within the vicinity of a site administered by the National 18
329329 Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 19
330330 or the Forest Service to a field unit which the individual 20
331331 would report to work into any position at or below grade 21
332332 GS–9 of the General Schedule, WG–15 of the Federal 22
333333 Wage System, or equivalent within the applicable field 23
334334 unit. 24
335335 (b) R
336336 EQUIREMENTS.—An appointment by the Sec-25
337337 retary under subsection (a) shall be considered compliant 26
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341341 with all applicable provisions of chapter 33 of title 5, 1
342342 United States Code, if the Secretary ensures that the ap-2
343343 pointment action— 3
344344 (1) is consistent with the merit principles of 4
345345 section 2301 of that title; and 5
346346 (2) complies with the public notice requirements 6
347347 of section 3327 of that title. 7
348348 (c) T
349349 ERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority 8
350350 provided under subsection (a) shall terminate on Sep-9
351351 tember 30, 2030. 10
352352 SEC. 302. SUPPORTING THE SEASONAL NATIONAL PARK 11
353353 SERVICE WORKFORCE. 12
354354 (a) I
355355 NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-13
356356 sion of law, for purposes of determining the noncompeti-14
357357 tive rehire eligibility of temporary seasonal employees of 15
358358 the National Park Service— 16
359359 (1) the Secretary shall establish a definition of 17
360360 what constitutes a major subdivision of the National 18
361361 Park Service; and 19
362362 (2) any requirement that a position be in the 20
363363 same local commuting area shall not apply. 21
364364 (b) T
365365 ERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority 22
366366 provided under subsection (a) shall terminate on Sep-23
367367 tember 30, 2030. 24
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371371 TITLE IV—REPORTS AND 1
372372 OVERSIGHT 2
373373 SEC. 401. QUANTIFYING THE WORKFORCE HOUSING NEEDS 3
374374 OF LAND MANAGERS. 4
375375 Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment 5
376376 of this Act, the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture 6
377377 shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees of Con-7
378378 gress a needs assessment report that provides, with re-8
379379 spect to housing the workforce of covered agencies, as ap-9
380380 plicable— 10
381381 (1) an analysis of the unit type and condition 11
382382 of— 12
383383 (A) housing owned by the covered agencies; 13
384384 and 14
385385 (B) housing leased by the covered agencies; 15
386386 (2) an analysis of the employment status of the 16
387387 occupants of the housing analyzed under paragraph 17
388388 (1), including— 18
389389 (A) whether the occupants are— 19
390390 (i) members of the permanent work-20
391391 force; or 21
392392 (ii) members of the seasonal work-22
393393 force; and 23
394394 (B) which positions identified under sub-24
395395 paragraph (A) required housing provided by the 25
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399399 applicable covered agency as a condition of em-1
400400 ployment with the covered agency; and 2
401401 (3) an analysis of the private housing markets 3
402402 within the vicinity of a covered agency field unit, in-4
403403 cluding— 5
404404 (A) the availability and affordability of 6
405405 housing for sale or lease; and 7
406406 (B) the impact of vacation rental services 8
407407 on— 9
408408 (i) the cost of living; and 10
409409 (ii) the available supply of housing. 11
410410 SEC. 402. CONDUCTING OVERSIGHT ON THE HOUSING PRO-12
411411 GRAMMING OF LAND MANAGERS. 13
412412 (a) R
413413 EPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 18 14
414414 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comp-15
415415 troller General of the United States shall submit to the 16
416416 appropriate committees of Congress a report that— 17
417417 (1) assesses, in consultation with the National 18
418418 Housing Council described in Office of Management 19
419419 and Budget Circular A–45, the effect of Office of 20
420420 Management and Budget Circular A–45R on the 21
421421 housing of the workforce of covered agencies; 22
422422 (2) assesses the effect of Office of Management 23
423423 and Budget Circular A–11 on the housing of the 24
424424 workforce of covered agencies; 25
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428428 (3) assesses the effect of department-level guid-1
429429 ance on the housing of the workforce of covered 2
430430 agencies; 3
431431 (4) assesses the effect of agency-level guidance 4
432432 on the housing of the workforce of covered agencies; 5
433433 and 6
434434 (5) identifies suggested administrative actions 7
435435 and legislative proposals to reform the guidance as-8
436436 sessed under paragraphs (1) through (4), includ-9
437437 ing— 10
438438 (A) improvements to tenant experience; 11
439439 (B) improvements to workforce housing 12
440440 supply, including— 13
441441 (i) housing managed by the covered 14
442442 agencies; and 15
443443 (ii) leased private market housing; 16
444444 (C) improvements to financing options; 17
445445 (D) improvements to public-private part-18
446446 nerships; 19
447447 (E) improvements to philanthropic engage-20
448448 ment; and 21
449449 (F) improvements to commuting times to 22
450450 report stations, including— 23
451451 (i) available housing in the gateway 24
452452 communities; 25
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456456 (ii) available housing in the nearest 1
457457 established community (as defined in Of-2
458458 fice of Management and Budget Circular 3
459459 A–45); and 4
460460 (iii) differences between normal com-5
461461 muting conditions and peak-commute traf-6
462462 fic conditions, including considerations 7
463463 for— 8
464464 (I) road quality and condition; 9
465465 (II) availability of public trans-10
466466 portation; 11
467467 (III) winter driving; and 12
468468 (IV) visitor traffic. 13
469469 (b) I
470470 MPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 1 year after 14
471471 the date on which the report is submitted under subsection 15
472472 (a), the heads of the covered agencies shall carry out the 16
473473 administrative actions identified under paragraph (5) of 17
474474 that subsection. 18
475475 SEC. 403. JUSTIFYING EMERGENCY SPENDING. 19
476476 Section 5 of the Act of August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 20
477477 1033, chapter 950; 7 U.S.C. 2228), is amended— 21
478478 (1) by striking the section designation and all 22
479479 that follows through ‘‘The Department’’ and insert-23
480480 ing the following: 24
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484484 ‘‘SEC. 5. EMERGENCY SUBSISTENCE FOR EMPLOYEES. 1
485485 ‘‘(a) I
486486 NGENERAL.—The Department’’; and 2
487487 (2) by adding at the end the following: 3
488488 ‘‘(b) R
489489 EPORT.— 4
490490 ‘‘(1) I
491491 N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-5
492492 graph (3), not later than 30 days after the date on 6
493493 which the Secretary of Agriculture furnishes subsist-7
494494 ence to employees under subsection (a), the Sec-8
495495 retary of Agriculture shall submit to the appropriate 9
496496 committees of Congress (as defined in section 2 of 10
497497 the Land Manager Housing and Workforce Improve-11
498498 ment Act of 2025) a report providing— 12
499499 ‘‘(A) 1 or more justifications for the use of 13
500500 the authority; 14
501501 ‘‘(B) the number of employees that were 15
502502 furnished subsistence; 16
503503 ‘‘(C) the estimated cost of furnishing sub-17
504504 sistence; and 18
505505 ‘‘(D) the expected duration for which sub-19
506506 sistence is to be provided. 20
507507 ‘‘(2) O
508508 FFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET .— 21
509509 The information for a report required under para-22
510510 graph (1) shall be produced in coordination with, 23
511511 and approved by, the Director of the Office of Man-24
512512 agement and Budget. 25
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516516 ‘‘(3) EXCEPTION.—A report under paragraph 1
517517 (1) shall not be required in the case of an emergency 2
518518 resulting from a natural disaster, act of terrorism, 3
519519 or other man-made disaster.’’. 4
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