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(a) (1) Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2027 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activities specified in the table titled “Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2027'' in the report accompanying this Act. (2) If any portion of a project specified under the accounts titled “Land Acquisition Projects” in the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior or “Forest Legacy Projects” in the Forest Service in the table titled “Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2027” in the report accompanying this Act is intended to be carried out within the Federal land unit or project boundary as specified in such table (or any prior allocation table incorporated by reference into a prior Act or approved by the Committees on Appropriations, as applicable) but outside the specific tracts for the project described in the corresponding project data sheet submitted to the Committees on Appropriations required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, not later than 30 days before the date on which the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture expends amounts on the project, the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall provide written notice to the Committees on Appropriations of such expenditure. (b) Neither the President nor his designee may allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal year under subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts and for projects and activities that are allocated under subsection (a)(1) of this section: Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing administration of programs allocated funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1). (c) (1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2028, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a list of supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy projects at the Forest Service that are in addition to the “Submission of Cost Estimates” required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that total no less than half the full amount allocated to each such account for the Forest Service under the allocations submitted under that section: Provided, That in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant to section 200303(a) of title 54, United States Code, are no longer needed because a project has been completed or can no longer be executed, such amounts shall be clearly identified if proposed for reallocation in the annual budget submission. (2) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2028, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a list of supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition projects at the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management that are in addition to the “Submission of Cost Estimates” required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that total the full amount allocated to each such account titled “Land Acquisition Projects” for that land management Agency in the table titled “Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2027” in the report accompanying this Act: Provided, That in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant to section 200303(a) of title 54, United States Code, are no longer needed because a project has been completed or can no longer be executed, such amounts shall be clearly identified if proposed for reallocation in the annual budget submission. (3) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy projects in the “Submission of Cost Estimates” required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code and on the lists of supplementary allocations required by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be comprised only of projects for which a willing seller has been identified and for which an appraisal or market research has been initiated. (4) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2028, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on Appropriations project data sheets in the same format and containing the same level of detailed information that is found on such sheets in the Budget Justifications annually submitted by the Secretary of the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects in the “Submission of Cost Estimates” required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the same format and containing the same level of detailed information that is found on such sheets submitted to the Committees on Appropriations pursuant to section 427 of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) for the list of supplementary allocations required by paragraphs (1) and (2). (5) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and activities funded by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated funds.