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Tying multistate grant caps to a percentage of total appropriations makes conservation funding more responsive to increases in federal funding but exposes state and local wildlife agencies to greater variability and risk of cuts when appropriations fall, complicating planning.
State and local fish and wildlife agencies: multistate grant awards will grow automatically when federal appropriations rise because maximum grant amounts are set as a percentage of total appropriations instead of fixed dollar caps.
State fish and wildlife agencies: tying grant scales to total appropriations makes relative funding shares responsive to changes in overall funding, improving predictability of how their proportional allocations will move across years.
State and local fish and wildlife agencies: if federal appropriations fall, grants set as a percentage of appropriations could shrink compared with prior fixed-dollar expectations, reducing available conservation funds.
State and local agencies: moving from a fixed cap to a percentage-based formula can increase year-to-year variability in grant sizes, complicating budgeting and long-term planning for recipients.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Replaces fixed-dollar caps for multistate conservation grants with a percentage-based minimum (greater of 0.0375% of appropriations or a specified dollar floor) and updates statutory wording in sport fish law.
Amends the federal sport fish restoration law to revise wording in several provisions and to change how multistate conservation grant amounts are set. Instead of a fixed-dollar cap, the multistate grant program would receive a minimum amount defined by a formula that uses a percentage of annual appropriations (the greater of 0.0375% of the appropriation or a specified dollar floor). The text excerpt includes incomplete numeric placeholders, so final dollar amounts and exact changes are not fully shown.
Introduced March 26, 2026 by Daniel Scott Sullivan · Last progress March 26, 2026