“To reauthorize the Foundation for America's Public Lands, and for other purposes.”
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This section renames the Bureau of Land Management Foundation as the "Foundation for America’s Public Lands"; adds to its purposes support for fulfilling the Bureau of Land Management’s multiple use mandate (i.e., balancing conservation, energy development, grazing, recreation, and other uses on public lands); and makes other changes to board composition, prohibitions, and funding, as follows: (1) expands the maximum board size from 9 members to 12 members (not later than 180 days after enactment), 15 members (two years after enactment), and 18 members (four years after enactment and thereafter), with the BLM director remaining an ex-officio, nonvoting member; (2) revises expertise requirements from a majority of members to not less than one-third and adds representation mandates such that, not later than four years after enactment, the 18-member board includes at least two energy production experts (one fossil fuels, one non-fossil), one rancher or grazer on BLM land, one non-motorized recreation representative, one motorized recreation representative, one from hunting/fishing or recreational shooting, and one from mining; (3) prohibits use of foundation amounts for litigation expenses or influencing pending legislation; (4) authorizes the foundation to transfer gifts to federal entities for BLM’s multiple use mission without further appropriation; and (5) authorizes $10 million annually for FYs 2025 through 2029 (from such sums as necessary) to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out this Act.