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[Discussion Draft]
[Discussion Draft]
July 1, 2015
114th CONGRESS
1st Session
Rules Committee Print 114-21
Text of H.R. 2647, Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015
[Showing text based on H.R. 2647, as reported by the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources.]
1.
Short title; table of contents
(a)
This Act may be cited as the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015
.
(b)
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Title I—Expedited Environmental Analysis and Availability of Categorical Exclusions to Expedite Forest Management Activities
Sec. 101. Analysis of only two alternatives (action versus no action) in proposed collaborative forest management activities.
Sec. 102. Categorical exclusion to expedite certain critical response actions.
Sec. 103. Categorical exclusion to expedite salvage operations in response to catastrophic events.
Sec. 104. Categorical exclusion to meet forest plan goals for early successional forests.
Sec. 105. Clarification of existing categorical exclusion authority related to insect and disease infestation.
Sec. 106. Categorical exclusion to improve, restore, and reduce the risk of wildfire.
Sec. 107. Compliance with forest plan.
Title II—Salvage and Reforestation in Response to Catastrophic Events
Sec. 201. Expedited salvage operations and reforestation activities following large-scale catastrophic events.
Sec. 202. Compliance with forest plan.
Sec. 203. Prohibition on restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and injunctions pending appeal.
Sec. 204. Exclusion of certain lands.
Title III—Collaborative Project Litigation Requirement
Sec. 301. Definitions.
Sec. 302. Bond requirement as part of legal challenge of certain forest management activities.
Title IV—Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act Amendments
Sec. 401. Use of reserved funds for title II projects on Federal land and certain non-Federal land.
Sec. 402. Resource advisory committees.
Sec. 403. Program for title II self-sustaining resource advisory committee projects.
Sec. 404. Additional authorized use of reserved funds for title III county projects.
Title V—Stewardship End Result Contracting
Sec. 501. Cancellation ceilings for stewardship end result contracting projects.
Sec. 502. Excess offset value.
Sec. 503. Payment of portion of stewardship project revenues to county in which stewardship project occurs.
Sec. 504. Submission of existing annual report.
Title VI—Additional Funding Sources for Forest Management Activities
Sec. 601. Definitions.
Sec. 602. Availability of stewardship project revenues and Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund to cover forest management activity planning costs.
Sec. 603. State-supported planning of forest management activities.
Title VII—Tribal Forestry Participation and Protection
Sec. 701. Protection of tribal forest assets through use of stewardship end result contracting and other authorities.
Sec. 702. Management of Indian forest land authorized to include related National Forest System lands and public lands.
Title VIII—Miscellaneous Forest Management Provisions
Sec. 801. Balancing short- and long-term effects of forest management activities in considering injunctive relief.
Sec. 802. Conditions on Forest Service road decommissioning.
Sec. 803. Prohibition on application of Eastside Screens requirements on National Forest System lands.
Sec. 804. Use of site-specific forest plan amendments for certain projects and activities.
Sec. 805. Knutson-Vandenberg Act modifications.
Sec. 806. Exclusion of certain National Forest System lands and public lands.
Title IX—Major Disaster for Wildfire on Federal Land
Sec. 901. Wildfire on Federal lands.
Sec. 902. Declaration of a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands.
Sec. 903. Prohibition on transfers.
2.
In titles I through VIII:
(1)
The term catastrophic event
means any natural disaster (such as hurricane, tornado, windstorm, snow or ice storm, rain storm, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, drought, or insect or disease outbreak) or any fire, flood, or explosion, regardless of cause.
(2)
The term categorical exclusion
refers to an exception to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.) for a project or activity relating to the management of National Forest System lands or public lands.
(3)
The term collaborative process
refers to a process relating to the management of National Forest System lands or public lands by which a project or activity is developed and implemented by the Secretary concerned through collaboration with interested persons, as described in section 603(b)(1)(C) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591b(b)(1)(C)).
(4)
Community wildfire protection plan
The term community wildfire protection plan
has the meaning given that term in section 101(3) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6511(3)).
(5)
Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands
The term Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands
means the lands reconveyed to the United States pursuant to the first section of the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179).
(6)
Forest management activity
The term forest management activity means a project or activity carried out by the Secretary concerned on National Forest System lands or public lands in concert with the forest plan covering the lands.
(7)
The term forest plan means—
(A)
a land use plan prepared by the Bureau of Land Management for public lands pursuant to section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712); or
(B)
a land and resource management plan prepared by the Forest Service for a unit of the National Forest System pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604).
(8)
Large-scale catastrophic event
The term large-scale catastrophic event
means a catastrophic event that adversely impacts at least 5,000 acres of reasonably contiguous National Forest System lands or public lands.
(9)
The term National Forest System
has the meaning given that term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1609(a)).
(10)
Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands
The term Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands
means the following lands:
(A)
All lands in the State of Oregon revested in the United States under the Act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218), that are administered by the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, pursuant to the first section of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181a).
(B)
All lands in that State obtained by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the land exchanges authorized and directed by section 2 of the Act of June 24, 1954 (43 U.S.C. 1181h).
(C)
All lands in that State acquired by the United States at any time and made subject to the provisions of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181f).
(11)
The term public lands
has the meaning given that term in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702(e)), except that the term includes Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands and Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands.
(12)
The term reforestation activity means a project or activity carried out by the Secretary concerned whose primary purpose is the reforestation of fire-impacted lands following a large-scale wildfire. The term includes planting, evaluating and enhancing natural regeneration, clearing competing vegetation, and other activities related to reestablishment of forest species on the fire-impacted lands.
(13)
Resource advisory committee
The term resource advisory committee
has the meaning given that term in section 201(3) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7121(3)).
(14)
The term salvage operation
means a forest management activity undertaken in response to a catastrophic event whose primary purpose—
(A)
is to prevent wildfire as a result of the catastrophic event, or, if the catastrophic event was wildfire, to prevent a re-burn of the fire-impacted area;
(B)
is to provide an opportunity for utilization of forest materials damaged as a result of the catastrophic event; or
(C)
is to provide a funding source for reforestation and other restoration activities for the National Forest System lands or public lands impacted by the catastrophic event.
(15)
The term Secretary concerned means—
(A)
the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System lands; and
(B)
the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public lands.
<enum>I</enum>
<header>Expedited Environmental Analysis and Availability of Categorical Exclusions to Expedite Forest Management Activities</header>
<section id="H3449D677CACA436EB4B7B55CAA0F891C">
<enum>101.</enum>
<header>Analysis of only two alternatives (action versus no action) in proposed collaborative forest management activities</header>
<subsection id="H2CA576B5EF2E4D249CC15FDE066A0D66">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Application to certain Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements</header>
<text>This section shall apply whenever the Secretary concerned prepares an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement pursuant to section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)) for a forest management activity that—</text>
<paragraph id="H302905CA3287472E98BEBAF031A2E5BA">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is developed through a collaborative process;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFC621E9D714F4833B9059D89FC8146E6">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>is proposed by a resource advisory committee; or</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF56DA2115ABD4E82A54C90A86F722A7D">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is covered by a community wildfire protection plan.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H8C323FB2B60E4E959F874805D46235E8">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Consideration of Alternatives</header>
<text>In an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement described in subsection (a), the Secretary concerned shall study, develop, and describe only the following two alternatives:</text>
<paragraph id="H9C8608D93C9A4E9DB6B7789BE3EA1A39">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The forest management activity, as proposed pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA91C5526A5F3431ABFD2FBD6ACACAA4D">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>The alternative of no action.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H0094BE3E36114AF08ADFD29D97C72574">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Elements of Non-Action Alternative</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of the alternative of no action, the Secretary concerned shall evaluate—</text>
<paragraph id="H8DC46BCC63FA4244A4166E383001792C">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>the effect of no action on—</text>
<subparagraph id="H196CA498D1B647F1A98FA59AA3F12849">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>forest health;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H389BB4F71B104106A5414D8BB0B9A86B">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>habitat diversity;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAAA0AF9A327E4DAF867C0917AFEDC4E0">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>wildfire potential; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD2E01D9C42944B5DB4A0ED68A7DE4FAE">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>insect and disease potential; and</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDB23142D10074005A6C07F3E47B605AB">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>the implications of a resulting decline in forest health, loss of habitat diversity, wildfire, or insect or disease infestation, given fire and insect and disease historic cycles, on—</text>
<subparagraph id="H9F030286174749DE8C626B8E70098A0D">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>domestic water costs;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H51871E0B0DDB4A609C071AA95D7EB14F">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>wildlife habitat loss; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8F69CC319E3E4FC48004DDC700C1BDF5">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>other economic and social factors.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H1433A3EA38ED415791C6A93F678A912B">
<enum>102.</enum>
<header>Categorical exclusion to expedite certain critical response actions</header>
<subsection id="H0B5FDAD535A34B50AC7685F26A2D762F">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Availability of categorical exclusion</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A categorical exclusion is available to the Secretary concerned to develop and carry out a forest management activity on National Forest System lands or public lands when the primary purpose of the forest management activity is—</text>
<paragraph id="H259876FEFE3F4F0F83AB46A349FF5C6B">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>to address an insect or disease infestation;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H22C2AB1593224161A07C73DF5629527B">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>to reduce hazardous fuel loads;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H46B217413DA4436BB37D6363449BC4CE">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to protect a municipal water source;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H057886532ED043BCBDE15E343886C64F">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to maintain, enhance, or modify critical habitat to protect it from catastrophic disturbances;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0CB32FCE7C6E4BA79D244FF0A70DB617">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text>to increase water yield; or</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC776D288D9484D16BD0FCD4E2A95385F">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<text>any combination of the purposes specified in paragraphs (1) through (5).</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H107B92487B3A49D6BAC39B4C089F8067">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Acreage limitations</header>
<paragraph id="HAD49381C72664C7784D5BE4683A08068">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except in the case of a forest management activity described in paragraph (2), a forest management activity covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not contain harvest units exceeding a total of 5,000 acres.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC88E6A5D1A6C46D49DB800777506CC8A">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Larger areas authorized</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A forest management activity covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not contain harvest units exceeding a total of 15,000 acres if the forest management activity—</text>
<subparagraph id="H343286E51A4D453DB1DD41580FF73421">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>is developed through a collaborative process;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC040DB730E954BADB55935F36DB297A2">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is proposed by a resource advisory committee; or</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9BC53A6AC26F459E87599CC73B7C1D8A">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is covered by a community wildfire protection plan.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HD6C9FBA0672540F7829FC2B95520DB8B">
<enum>103.</enum>
<header>Categorical exclusion to expedite salvage operations in response to catastrophic events</header>
<subsection id="HBC34DF07D5E74F5ABE73D95C04A61F71">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Availability of categorical exclusion</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A categorical exclusion is available to the Secretary concerned to develop and carry out a salvage operation as part of the restoration of National Forest System lands or public lands following a catastrophic event.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HF41743034B9E4EAB9E815C51398BE954">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Acreage limitations</header>
<paragraph id="H97898B44340245B49E4FAB950D3E9FDD">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A salvage operation covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not contain harvest units exceeding a total of 5,000 acres.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2A5AA17F6A724B6A9E4B11087BF59BAE">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Harvest area</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the limitation imposed by paragraph (1), the harvest units covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not exceed one-third of the area impacted by the catastrophic event.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H458152E298D34426ACACC10E0764465A">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Additional requirements</header>
<paragraph id="H0AA9648E15194C8590DF468281DDCCEE">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Road building</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A salvage operation covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not include any new permanent roads. Temporary roads constructed as part of the salvage operation shall be retired before the end of the second fiscal year beginning after the completion of the salvage operation.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB4435B4D7E5B4E5097F111BF14A3621A">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Stream buffers</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A salvage operation covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) shall comply with the standards and guidelines for stream buffers contained in the applicable forest plan unless waived by the Regional Forester, in the case of National Forest System lands, or the State Director of the Bureau of Land Management, in the case of public lands.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7C94005A328E419BA8BEEF4FF825396B">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Reforestation plan</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A reforestation plan shall be developed under section 3 of the Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b), as part of a salvage operation covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HAEAD1C795A944CEDB20E0325AAA7A511">
<enum>104.</enum>
<header>Categorical exclusion to meet forest plan goals for early successional forests</header>
<subsection id="H0D852442A2264CF5BFB6BB61CCD2E297">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Availability of categorical exclusion</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A categorical exclusion is available to the Secretary concerned to develop and carry out a forest management activity on National Forest System lands or public lands when the primary purpose of the forest management activity is to modify, improve, enhance, or create early successional forests for wildlife habitat improvement and other purposes, consistent with the applicable forest plan.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HFD8D50AA3F3C4EB18FD19AD7F79F0B66">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Project goals</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary concerned shall design a forest management activity under this section to meet early successional forest goals in such a manner so as to maximize production and regeneration of priority species, as identified in the forest plan and consistent with the capability of the activity site.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HB354F76981484F9BBB3C2304265D321E">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Acreage limitations</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A forest management activity covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not contain harvest units exceeding a total of 5,000 acres.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HF7D3557AB8B649D4962346AEC99E8CD0">
<enum>105.</enum>
<header>Clarification of existing categorical exclusion authority related to insect and disease infestation</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 603(c)(2)(B) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591b(c)(2)(B)) is amended by striking <quote>Fire Regime Groups I, II, or III</quote> and inserting <quote>Fire Regime I, Fire Regime II, Fire Regime III, or Fire Regime IV</quote>.</text>
</section>
<section id="H90E44773D3A345488BF5795C62ED21D5">
<enum>106.</enum>
<header>Categorical exclusion to improve, restore, and reduce the risk of wildfire</header>
<subsection id="H75E037502E6B48029F7803EDBE426774">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Availability of categorical exclusion</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A categorical exclusion is available to the Secretary concerned to carry out a forest management activity described in subsection (c) on National Forest System Lands or public lands when the primary purpose of the activity is to improve, restore, or reduce the risk of wildfire on those lands.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HDBE1DEEF23AA4E9E964DA0641227FA03">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Acreage limitations</header>
<text>A forest management activity covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a) may not exceed 5,000 acres.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H558EA8E5BA8E4B1CB84F295BC45CF2DF">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Authorized activities</header>
<text>The following activities may be carried out using a categorical exclusion granted by subsection (a):</text>
<paragraph id="H340C759DE0E94BA38496E0B7F720D8FB">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Removal of juniper trees, medusahead rye, conifer trees, piñon pine trees, cheatgrass, and other noxious or invasive weeds specified on Federal or State noxious weeds lists through late-season livestock grazing, targeted livestock grazing, prescribed burns, and mechanical treatments.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC643FFFB3D7A4467AED0CC923F744806">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>Performance of hazardous fuels management.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8F91F27385254F13BD51450503AFA5AC">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>Creation of fuel and fire breaks.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFBA4D2238FE24931AC9BF7F0E50CAA35">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of existing fences in order to distribute livestock and help improve wildlife habitat.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA74B82363CB24783A38D27A875E6E694">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text>Installation of erosion control devices.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB6D762BF512E47068912D4F11AE6102C">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Construction of new and maintenance of permanent infrastructure, including stock ponds, water catchments, and water spring boxes used to benefit livestock and improve wildlife habitat.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9165D25A4E624CAAA522F6A4149719A0">
<enum>(7)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Performance of soil treatments, native and non-native seeding, and planting of and transplanting sagebrush, grass, forb, shrub, and other species.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8E282951A1C84BF19B65CA2F1D2DC9E2">
<enum>(8)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of herbicides, so long as the Secretary concerned determines that the activity is otherwise conducted consistently with agency procedures, including any forest plan applicable to the area covered by the activity.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H14C54E5D79EB4AFEBCAA57AEBE000359">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="HF4401D7BFC88497790B1AE7D0120B0EE">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Hazardous fuels management</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>hazardous fuels management</quote> means any vegetation management activities that reduce the risk of wildfire.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H446C5D9CF18B4490A9187D0841AB3C9C">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Late-season grazing</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>late-season grazing</quote> means grazing activities that occur after both the invasive species and native perennial species have completed their current-year annual growth cycle until new plant growth begins to appear in the following year.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H20ADFC3C598C4E68BB14AA0869CB4C67">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Targeted livestock grazing</header>
<text>The term <quote>targeted livestock grazing</quote> means grazing used to for purposes of hazardous fuel reduction.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H688E399A078F474E95755DEF2C069F6B">
<enum>107.</enum>
<header>Compliance with forest plan</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">A forest management activity covered by a categorical exclusion granted by this title shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the forest plan applicable to the National Forest System land or public lands covered by the forest management activity.</text>
</section>
<enum>II</enum>
<header>Salvage and Reforestation in Response to Catastrophic Events</header>
<section id="HA9D1B0C3E3B742C6AD12034D425BAF9B">
<enum>201.</enum>
<header>Expedited salvage operations and reforestation activities following large-scale catastrophic events</header>
<subsection id="HC2BA100BFEC34E98A66381C4B6088544">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Expedited environmental assessment</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any environmental assessment prepared by the Secretary concerned pursuant to section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)) for a salvage operation or reforestation activity proposed to be conducted on National Forest System lands or public lands adversely impacted by a large-scale catastrophic event shall be completed within three months after the conclusion of the catastrophic event.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H6F6924AFDBDF44008304C540BF4BC7E7">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Expedited implementation and completion</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of reforestation activities conducted on National Forest System lands or public lands adversely impacted by a large-scale catastrophic event, the Secretary concerned shall achieve reforestation of at least 75 percent of the impacted lands during the five-year period following the conclusion of the catastrophic event.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H43D5F71DE6B84F09B5D254768F960E97">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Availability of Knutson-Vandenberg funds</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts in the special fund established pursuant to section 3 of the Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b) shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for reforestation activities authorized by this title.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HFC1259AB71AB471DA57FF6913B4976CF">
<enum>202.</enum>
<header>Compliance with forest plan</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">A salvage operation or reforestation activity authorized by this title shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the forest plan applicable to the National Forest System lands or public lands covered by the salvage operation or reforestation activity.</text>
</section>
<section id="H5845166C867D4DCC8F75DFFB7CF38E80">
<enum>203.</enum>
<header>Prohibition on restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and injunctions pending appeal</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">No restraining order, preliminary injunction, or injunction pending appeal shall be issued by any court of the United States with respect to any decision to prepare or conduct a salvage operation or reforestation activity in response to a large-scale catastrophic event. Section 705 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to any challenge to the salvage operation or reforestation activity.</text>
</section>
<section id="H395EFC1A9F3C42D19CD89CD71E948341">
<enum>204.</enum>
<header>Exclusion of certain lands</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">In applying this title, the Secretary concerned may not carry out salvage operations or reforestation activities on National Forest System lands or public lands—</text>
<paragraph id="H6C6165A1BEE84B158C6A086F5FE2AA66">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that are included in the National Wilderness Preservation System;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC92C8A2C47684AE8B2ADF620C9F30099">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that are located within an inventoried roadless area unless the reforestation activity is consistent with the forest plan; or</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEA868B005C5F4FC393C2BA6C1DDE1C68">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on which timber harvesting for any purpose is prohibited by statute.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<enum>III</enum>
<header>Collaborative Project Litigation Requirement</header>
<section id="HCAC003F3C009406198ECB1A8E2104611">
<enum>301.</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph id="H4C43AD3C73404BE1BDE6885789C56960">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Costs</header>
<text>The term <quote>costs</quote> refers to the fees and costs described in section 1920 of title 28, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8B3F8629AA246BDB14235B3081C78A0">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Expenses</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>expenses</quote> includes the expenditures incurred by the staff of the Secretary concerned in preparing for and responding to a legal challenge to a collaborative forest management activity and in participating in litigation that challenges the forest management activity, including such staff time as may be used to prepare the administrative record, exhibits, declarations, and affidavits in connection with the litigation.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section id="HB294529B5F2943A09CBFFCB90CEA1060">
<enum>302.</enum>
<header>Bond requirement as part of legal challenge of certain forest management activities</header>
<subsection id="HE906ED2775964DF7AFF44273117589A2">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Bond required</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a forest management activity developed through a collaborative process or proposed by a resource advisory committee, any plaintiff or plaintiffs challenging the forest management activity shall be required to post a bond or other security equal to the anticipated costs, expenses, and attorneys fees of the Secretary concerned as defendant, as reasonably estimated by the Secretary concerned. All proceedings in the action shall be stayed until the required bond or security is provided.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H87DACC814EC841E59167D79E76C9F8E5">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Recovery of litigation costs, expenses, and attorneys fees</header>
<paragraph id="HC3F728C2FCAD45CD9F94D684EF27F715">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Motion for payment</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary concerned prevails in an action challenging a forest management activity described in subsection (a), the Secretary concerned shall submit to the court a motion for payment, from the bond or other security posted under subsection (a) in such action, of the reasonable costs, expenses, and attorneys fees incurred by the Secretary concerned.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7894F4755E5B47CEB5AA752E264BF5C7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Maximum amount recovered</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of costs, expenses, and attorneys fees recovered by the Secretary concerned under paragraph (1) as a result of prevailing in an action challenging the forest management activity may not exceed the amount of the bond or other security posted under subsection (a) in such action.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8E923FE44E744633B97F4E8D59660ADC">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Return of remainder</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any funds remaining from the bond or other security posted under subsection (a) after the payment of costs, expenses, and attorneys fees under paragraph (1) shall be returned to the plaintiff or plaintiffs that posted the bond or security in the action.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H5015B090B7C34C39A3E9697D89EC83F4">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Return of bond to prevailing plaintiff</header>
<paragraph id="HE902C3B802A043A592C4FCDE65323A21">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the plaintiff ultimately prevails on the merits in every action brought by the plaintiff challenging a forest management activity described in subsection (a), the court shall return to the plaintiff any bond or security provided by the plaintiff under subsection (a), plus interest from the date the bond or security was provided.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA74167A4E1334493BB40323B8057239D">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Ultimately prevails on the merits</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the phrase <quote>ultimately prevails on the merits</quote> means, in a final enforceable judgment on the merits, a court rules in favor of the plaintiff on every cause of action in every action brought by the plaintiff challenging the forest management activity.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H7F8FD0454358469783D77A61AF1EA0AF">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Effect of settlement</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a challenge to a forest management activity described in subsection (a) for which a bond or other security was provided by the plaintiff under such subsection is resolved by settlement between the Secretary concerned and the plaintiff, the settlement agreement shall provide for sharing the costs, expenses, and attorneys fees incurred by the parties.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H64E5C29143DC49ED8A5F1D8D8E3BA1F0">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Limitation on certain payments</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, no award may be made under section 2412 of title 28, United States Code, and no amounts may be obligated or expended from the Claims and Judgment Fund of the United States Treasury to pay any fees or other expenses under such sections to any plaintiff related to an action challenging a forest management activity described in subsection (a).</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<enum>IV</enum>
<header>Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act Amendments</header>
<section id="HFDDF2AB80ABD46918CC602E538E748F5">
<enum>401.</enum>
<header>Use of reserved funds for title II projects on Federal land and certain non-Federal land</header>
<subsection id="HE1F08BAAFEA447F18E441E33FE9F5EDD">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Repeal of Merchantable timber contracting pilot program</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(e) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7124(e)) is amended by striking paragraph (3).</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H5D440EFBEA284BD48D03921446C7BB50">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Requirements for project funds</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7124) is amended by striking subsection (f) and inserting the following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H21154D54148E42D68D85470B9FFBB4E3" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HDD20FB0805394D5F8F39F752FB872EF1">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Requirements for project funds</header>
<paragraph id="H51C00FCBCE17492F9E5A5341DDB1F3E2">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary concerned shall ensure that at least 50 percent of the project funds reserved by a participating county under section 102(d) shall be available only for projects that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7F168C7B8E3547DE8C5ADEE80E53A8C8">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>include the sale of timber or other forest products; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H32C825B18F7C4B2B824F36D163393973">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems or restore and improve land health and water quality.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5A9C578BD6E24512B8D1DE7D85226436">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Applicability</header>
<text>The requirement in paragraph (1) shall apply only to project funds reserved by a participating county whose boundaries include Federal land that the Secretary concerned determines has been subject to a timber or other forest products program within 5 fiscal years before the fiscal year in which the funds are reserved.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HEFF45265B2A74CB6AD8703C3648493D1">
<enum>402.</enum>
<header>Resource advisory committees</header>
<subsection id="H808CB79EFD0C4D28A5096C4A828D9491">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Recognition of resource advisory committees</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 205(a)(4) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(a)(4)) is amended by striking <quote>2012</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2020</quote>.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H41D2427E908F47B697BF1942F29A6798">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Temporary reduction in composition of committees</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 205(d) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(d)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF9E5DD38F0B34606A5C5C19908C6C013">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>Each</quote> and inserting <quote>Except during the period specified in paragraph (6), each</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3EEDC4FF23B64EC380A93706B80AACD4">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1209921BB4BE4D149403CCA1ED437162" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H306F6F5AC9204C20AF42854E6C32FF22">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Temporary reduction in minimum number of members</header>
<subparagraph id="HE1254DE25B1540D1AD17B181D378747C">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Temporary 6-member minimum</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this paragraph and ending on September 30, 2020, a resource advisory committee established under this section may be comprised of 6 or more members, of which—</text>
<clause id="H8A634369E7904D879FEC3EA01E8EE22C">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at least 2 shall be representative of interests described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2);</text>
</clause>
<clause id="HB11CA2678CAB4DD18199CAA33F8FB249">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at least 2 shall be representative of interests described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2); and</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H9A4B313185FF42CF8484969ED8C2FAAA">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at least 2 shall be representative of interests described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2).</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H87867303AAC949088CCC6795B5EE4E96">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Additional requirements</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In appointing members of a resource advisory committee from the 3 categories described in paragraph (2), as provided in subparagraph (A), the Secretary concerned shall ensure balanced and broad representation in each category. In the case of a vacancy on a resource advisory committee, the vacancy shall be filled within 90 days after the date on which the vacancy occurred. Appointments to a new resource advisory committee shall be made within 90 days after the date on which the decision to form the new resource advisory committee was made.</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0C1FA04B96D74020B287BE13FF37C37B">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Charter</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A charter for a resource advisory committee with 15 members that was filed on or before the date of the enactment of this paragraph shall be considered to be filed for a resource advisory committee described in this paragraph. The charter of a resource advisory committee shall be reapproved before the expiration of the existing charter of the resource advisory committee. In the case of a new resource advisory committee, the charter of the resource advisory committee shall be approved within 90 days after the date on which the decision to form the new resource advisory committee was made.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HEA6E51FAA3C04C9AB6D6916C99C2A7C0">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Conforming change to project approval requirements</header>
<text>Section 205(e)(3) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(e)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>In the case of a resource advisory committee consisting of fewer than 15 members, as authorized by subsection (d)(6), a project may be proposed to the Secretary concerned upon approval by a majority of the members of the committee.</quote>.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H483E4636B65D4DC2A4EB02AC2C44C5B0">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Expanding local participation on committees</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 205(d) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(d)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAB84EA114990491AB81BE9042B0DC539">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, consistent with the requirements of paragraph (4)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8352DE9FD66E46CBA9C3FEC24C509159">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4301F39062174C30912803D80A4985CA" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H56E81250B5634EA2B389AAB28F348E62">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Geographic distribution</header>
<text>The members of a resource advisory committee shall reside within the county or counties in which the committee has jurisdiction or an adjacent county.</text>
</paragraph>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H106A54F33A2F4DBCA12537834BC0BB27">
<enum>403.</enum>
<header>Program for title II self-sustaining resource advisory committee projects</header>
<subsection id="H142CBFA32CEB4289BEA33A8F1EB65298">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Self-Sustaining resource advisory committee projects</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7121 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H060D6F5E7A5F4E0BBB510E324FDA5210" style="OLC">
<section id="H875C64629DF84FF98F66BB538CFAE277">
<enum>209.</enum>
<header>Program for self-sustaining resource advisory committee projects</header>
<subsection id="H94C13E3005EC4A369B712BE4C28DC712">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>RAC program</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Chief of the Forest Service shall conduct a program (to be known as the <quote>self-sustaining resource advisory committee program</quote> or <quote>RAC program</quote>) under which 10 resource advisory committees will propose projects authorized by subsection (c) to be carried out using project funds reserved by a participating county under section 102(d).</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H30E0D9A5F8584FD7BDF1B2CDBE9B027B">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Selection of participating resource advisory committees</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The selection of resource advisory committees to participate in the RAC program is in the sole discretion of the Chief of the Forest Service, except that, consistent with section 205(d)(6), a selected resource advisory committee must have a minimum of 6 members.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H4E59B46C203249399954BEFA7035BA4B">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Authorized projects</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the project purposes specified in sections 202(b), 203(c), and 204(a)(5), projects under the RAC program are intended to—</text>
<paragraph id="HC2414A2F454245B992F2DBF9F176FCEF">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">accomplish forest management objectives or support community development; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H206B9F3E85C6492389A3DC1F32AB2F6E">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>generate receipts.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H5BEDE359BCB64A9BAF96F2F57AD3FCB6">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Deposit and availability of revenues</header>
<text>Any revenue generated by a project conducted under the RAC program, including any interest accrued from the revenues, shall be—</text>
<paragraph id="HAE46F5E5D43A4D76A1120D4F833D0F2F">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>deposited in the special account in the Treasury established under section 102(d)(2)(A); and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H77DB4ACA17494FC08D1DC2A9EA686A4B">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>available, in such amounts as may be provided in advance in appropriation Acts, for additional projects under the RAC program.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H8C236AFCE25C4CF986CFCFA7D3E274E7">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Termination of authority</header>
<paragraph id="H5BBA0D58678E49E5A7E5321902B3191F">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>The authority to initiate a project under the RAC program shall terminate on September 30, 2020.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE505A0CE988F4DDB95D06EC0E37D2F26">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Deposits in treasury</header>
<text>Any funds available for projects under the RAC program and not obligated by September 30, 2021, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HCFCF71EDF45548C3A7DC413C4C7246B5">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Exception to general rule regarding treatment of receipts</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 403(b) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7153(b)) is amended by striking <quote>All revenues</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in section 209, all revenues</quote>.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HAF803B04ECB9410182360AC9A3DEF48C">
<enum>404.</enum>
<header>Additional authorized use of reserved funds for title III county projects</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 302(a) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7142(a)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7F0D24E697AD449AA75BEB2F8508757E">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD36FDB7C95DD45DBB64B60FE4B412CD4">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>by inserting <quote>and law enforcement patrols</quote> after <quote>including firefighting</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H382771C623F24714B80B90AD947C49DA">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H31A84C6035FD444DA6F1F9A68E645BF8">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4C7B1E0B36734867BFBBA0F528D926F5">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph (3):</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6AD761A0430C4F1296E547332F32DD8E" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H67A92CADC00B49D7AD7728F22D2A87CC">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to cover training costs and equipment purchases directly related to the emergency services described in paragraph (2); and</text>
</paragraph>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</section>
<enum>V</enum>
<header>Stewardship End Result Contracting</header>
<section id="HEFE695CAC2674A9599A72A877250DD7D">
<enum>501.</enum>
<header>Cancellation ceilings for stewardship end result contracting projects</header>
<subsection id="H21ED7202C9A24F8FA7678D85AB800BFC">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Cancellation ceilings</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 604 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0ED6EAB91AC4451CA7871670C0C50015">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections (i) and (j), respectively; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE419C72B62564743BC8A597E43364B3C">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by inserting after subsection (g) the following new subsection (h):</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF566D529FCAA49B081DDF63B14B11D1C" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H6D38268D232E439092E381800ED780D1">
<enum>(h)</enum>
<header>Cancellation ceilings</header>
<paragraph id="HCD1B0B4DA126472488AEFD7A3EA37594">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>The Chief and the Director may obligate funds to cover any potential cancellation or termination costs for an agreement or contract under subsection (b) in stages that are economically or programmatically viable.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H86CEEA48E87D4BDDA4C0F15CBA6A5622">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Advance notice to congress of cancellation ceiling in excess of $25,000,000</header>
<text>Not later than 30 days before entering into a multiyear agreement or contract under subsection (b) that includes a cancellation ceiling in excess of $25,000,000, but does not include proposed funding for the costs of cancelling the agreement or contract up to such cancellation ceiling, the Chief or the Director, as the case may be, shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a written notice that includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="H883C1B04797E449089987356DA487E3B">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cancellation ceiling amounts proposed for each program year in the agreement or contract;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA72230141DCF482594470AA3743BA137">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the reasons why such cancellation ceiling amounts were selected;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB4DCC5C67BE8471ABE24E5924A7FBF7C">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>the extent to which the costs of contract cancellation are not included in the budget for the agreement or contract; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H297A87DDC82D467CAF59A2BF2799FF17">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>an assessment of the financial risk of not including budgeting for the costs of agreement or contract cancellation.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H658E74336EFB4987BA2C635AC232DB64">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Transmittal of notice to OMB</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 14 days after the date on which written notice is provided under paragraph (2) with respect to an agreement or contract under subsection (b), the Chief or the Director, as the case may be, shall transmit a copy of the notice to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H2B6016B209B94A5F972786333DF7014C">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Relation to other laws</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 604(d)(5) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c(d)(5)) is amended by striking <quote>, the Chief may</quote> and inserting <quote>and section 2(a)(1) of the Act of July 31, 1947 (commonly known as the Materials Act of 1947; 30 U.S.C. 602(a)(1)), the Chief and the Director may</quote>.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H4FA56512C22745A4BF8B419EE787DE61">
<enum>502.</enum>
<header>Excess offset value</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 604(g)(2) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c(g)(2)) is amended by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and inserting the following new subparagraphs:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1629B685583B482DA31E88954099E7D7" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HA49BEFC57E2649E095D212C9F0933585">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>use the excess to satisfy any outstanding liabilities for cancelled agreements or contracts; or</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFC9A228A3AE144F78D80623084FAEC98">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>if there are no outstanding liabilities under subparagraph (A), apply the excess to other authorized stewardship projects.</text>
</subparagraph>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</section>
<section id="HF268AAB64A8A44DC9E01B99811567594">
<enum>503.</enum>
<header>Payment of portion of stewardship project revenues to county in which stewardship project occurs</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 604(e) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c(e)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H20869CF3826546049500D7BE9C8746D1">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting <quote>subject to paragraph (3)(A),</quote> before <quote>shall</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7D46126859E14A79AF418FB9DB2E57BD">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (3)(A), by striking <quote>services received by the Chief or the Director</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: <quote>services and in-kind resources received by the Chief or the Director under a stewardship contract project conducted under this section shall not be considered monies received from the National Forest System or the public lands, but any payments made by the contractor to the Chief or Director under the project shall be considered monies received from the National Forest System or the public lands.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section id="H35C74ABFE3C5441AAFC81538A33367F3">
<enum>504.</enum>
<header>Submission of existing annual report</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (j) of section 604 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c), as redesignated by section 501(a)(1), is amended by striking <quote>report to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives</quote> and inserting <quote>submit to the congressional committees specified in subsection (h)(2) a report</quote>.</text>
</section>
<enum>VI</enum>
<header>Additional Funding Sources for Forest Management Activities</header>
<section id="H69742E51469641388194768ED092CDF9">
<enum>601.</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph id="H4CCC7AC00A0D40AEA9059E2B4737226F">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Eligible entity</header>
<text>The term <quote>eligible entity</quote> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H207EF9D82CC242B0906D6DA93FD51685">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a State or political subdivision of a State containing National Forest System lands or public lands;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H29BFFC277C7A48158B77F18C76A490B7">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a publicly chartered utility serving one or more States or a political subdivision thereof;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF6E8F9C2A41D4E6CB7246974916D9616">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>a rural electric company; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H38434C042A5F46309C9F5890D269ACD3">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>any other entity determined by the Secretary concerned to be appropriate for participation in the Fund.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1781EE466DE347A5A898EA9778D67CC1">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Fund</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>Fund</quote> means the State-Supported Forest Management Fund established by section 603.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section id="H578261E5E1524D00AD9A2FEEC27A3F0F">
<enum>602.</enum>
<header>Availability of stewardship project revenues and Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund to cover forest management activity planning costs</header>
<subsection id="H7856A7B9C0CB4BA4929DEA0556574B19">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Availability of stewardship project revenues</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 604(e)(2)(B) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c(e)(2)(B)), as amended by section 503, is further amended by striking <quote>appropriation at the project site from which the monies are collected or at another project site.</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA8DB95687F98437B9035F4F6BE015998" style="OLC">
<text>appropriation—</text>
<clause id="H2907F38E0D1647FF80A50C3B5B413052">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at the project site from which the monies are collected or at another project site; and</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H007F977E47504DB6911F12E334B19CED">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to cover not more than 25 percent of the cost of planning additional stewardship contracting projects.</text>
</clause>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H9C7599C7B5D6402B88268799047454A5">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Availability of Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund</header>
<text>Section 4003(f)(1) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(f)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>carrying out and</quote> and inserting <quote>planning, carrying out, and</quote>.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H42ADC8D773D6459CB6D83A0BE94EF016">
<enum>603.</enum>
<header>State-supported planning of forest management activities</header>
<subsection id="H15CB85403B474A6DAF6E14E00892EF02">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>State-Supported forest management fund</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund, to be known as the <quote>State-Supported Forest Management Fund</quote>, to cover the cost of planning (especially related to compliance with section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2))), carrying out, and monitoring certain forest management activities on National Forest System lands or public lands.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HDADB8A85066C41608331F4DB0E7BB5FF">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Contents</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The State-Supported Forest Management Fund shall consist of such amounts as may be—</text>
<paragraph id="H6CA3A1924E56484EA4CC23B25130C7F8">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contributed by an eligible entity for deposit in the Fund;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5F0C5F263D254D5CBF8F5896862BF29D">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>appropriated to the Fund; or</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H19AD42BF3ECD4F049015B0DA0353945C">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">generated by forest management activities carried out using amounts in the Fund.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H7E94DDE99593409A9CF98B5C4813BC7C">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Geographical and use limitations</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In making a contribution under subsection (b)(1), an eligible entity may—</text>
<paragraph id="H553B7194BCB14308A565C37F777DB3F5">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">specify the National Forest System lands or public lands for which the contribution may be expended; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5D6906FCF82A49DCB53E23E09225DA55">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>limit the types of forest management activities for which the contribution may be expended.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H0405CDA4F7274AF89136BF84C48D269D">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Authorized forest management activities</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In such amounts as may be provided in advance in appropriation Acts, the Secretary concerned may use the Fund to plan, carry out, and monitor a forest management activity that—</text>
<paragraph id="H8872611828C8476F9A98E46B92FF4836">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is developed through a collaborative process;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8A9DC86E3C6D497B8AB48F93FF83542A">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>is proposed by a resource advisory committee; or</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H41C78EFED1BA46B2A4864336058B979B">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is covered by a community wildfire protection plan.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HC91C2B7BB9C647F88B3BD1DEEDB5C062">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Implementation methods</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A forest management activity carried out using amounts in the Fund may be carried out using a contract or agreement under section 604 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c), the good neighbor authority provided by section 8206 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a), a contract under section 14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a), or other authority available to the Secretary concerned, but revenues generated by the forest management activity shall be used to reimburse the Fund for planning costs covered using amounts in the Fund.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H374A722229EC49A1967C210DBA6ADEFF">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Relation to other laws</header>
<paragraph id="H53F151C5EF304369A23A7A737292DEA8">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Revenue sharing</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subsection (e), revenues generated by a forest management activity carried out using amounts from the Fund shall be considered monies received from the National Forest System.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8A396AE209534EF7AC4AB4CDC43CD61E">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Knutson-vanderberg Act</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the Knutson-Vanderberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.), shall apply to any forest management activity carried out using amounts in the Fund.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H3AEEF452070144D0A834726A8FB6FB57">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Termination of fund</header>
<paragraph id="H8C5D6F30786E4E54AA4FE02B12053F0B">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Termination</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Fund shall terminate 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H04B1872A7CC94493BE2A4660A4974B41">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Effect of termination</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon the termination of the Fund pursuant to paragraph (1) or pursuant to any other provision of law, unobligated contributions remaining in the Fund shall be returned to the eligible entity that made the contribution.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<enum>VII</enum>
<header>Tribal Forestry Participation and Protection</header>
<section id="H58F55D54968C45A5B464D203F1A50B5E">
<enum>701.</enum>
<header>Protection of tribal forest assets through use of stewardship end result contracting and other authorities</header>
<subsection id="H0EE6277435DF4E29AB521DD435134168">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Prompt consideration of tribal requests</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2(b) of the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 (25 U.S.C. 3115a(b)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HD34C5FE5EDFF4D179F437991F5A99924">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>Not later than 120 days after the date on which an Indian tribe submits to the Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>In response to the submission by an Indian tribe of </quote>; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H22D7B77865D945A1A3ED24D4596BFBC6">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H104317AE465145DC92701C9978EFBA89" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H458E6DD7AC9F48078EBA6DA5D0696919">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Time periods for consideration</header>
<subparagraph id="H03D0BCE9CDD545BE9204635C26B8570D">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Initial response</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Secretary receives a tribal request under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall provide an initial response to the Indian tribe regarding—</text>
<clause id="HAFF66E7614394C4390317707C8A862EF">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the request may meet the selection criteria described in subsection (c); and</text>
</clause>
<clause id="HE6387025BA8A406FA8ED4403C1C749A9">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>the likelihood of the Secretary entering into an agreement or contract with the Indian tribe under paragraph (2) for activities described in paragraph (3).</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4BC96C922CD3489D80688020EF0B2F14">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Notice of denial</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice under subsection (d) of the denial of a tribal request under paragraph (1) shall be provided not later than one year after the date on which the Secretary received the request.</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3B9D5B2B6D044E239D6DA363BD88FD70">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Completion</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than two years after the date on which the Secretary receives a tribal request under paragraph (1), other than a tribal request denied under subsection (d), the Secretary shall—</text>
<clause id="H0A204C0F6D8748A48B4C06614E64E3BD">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>complete all environmental reviews necessary in connection with the agreement or contract and proposed activities under the agreement or contract; and</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H62470992116040ACA5EE66D0CCE68561">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enter into the agreement or contract with the Indian tribe under paragraph (2).</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H318B0ECFC30C460C9F0144886216AE6F">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Conforming and technical amendments</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2 of the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 (25 U.S.C. 3115a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCD81CF0250374230BDBFB7CC1F7D83EA">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in subsections (b)(1) and (f)(1), by striking <quote>section 347 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 2104 note; Public Law 105–277) (as amended by section 323 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 (117 Stat. 275))</quote> and inserting <quote>section 604 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1A9B7A50FF124B2497AA983B0B63F900">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>in subsection (d), by striking <quote>subsection (b)(1), the Secretary may</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraphs (1) and (4)(B) of subsection (b), the Secretary shall</quote>.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H65B935470F674BF39C9EA09CBC7A9AC8">
<enum>702.</enum>
<header>Management of Indian forest land authorized to include related National Forest System lands and public lands</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 305 of the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (25 U.S.C. 3104) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H009E4CEDD4ED4D29A4CB131C652AB610" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H52B9472CD3A34FE89B824C0307FE5152">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Inclusion of certain National Forest System land and public land</header>
<paragraph id="H57B6D454FD4F480EA5C780BB107F8CE5">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Authority</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the request of an Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned may treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting forest land management activities under this section if the Federal forest land is located within, or mostly within, a geographic area that presents a feature or involves circumstances principally relevant to that Indian tribe, such as Federal forest land ceded to the United States by treaty, Federal forest land within the boundaries of a current or former reservation, or Federal forest land adjudicated to be tribal homelands.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB0D5EC28F2EF46A990DA0B007454C488">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As part of the agreement to treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land under paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned and the Indian tribe making the request shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5CDA8B5B9659439EBBE13D76BFD4D391">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide for continued public access applicable to the Federal forest land prior to the agreement, except that the Secretary concerned may limit or prohibit such access as needed;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE17D444E151B4BB7BA207DC989C25701">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>continue sharing revenue generated by the Federal forest land with State and local governments either—</text>
<clause id="H2E04955B7F5A4C0AB73BAF4188FF1544">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>on the terms applicable to the Federal forest land prior to the agreement, including, where applicable, 25-percent payments or 50 percent payments; or</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H2447563EA5E34A91A778831DA308A8C0">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>at the option of the Indian tribe, on terms agreed upon by the Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned, and State and county governments participating in a revenue sharing agreement for the Federal forest land;</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC3C200A78AB340B98C47336CEA5EA07B">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>comply with applicable prohibitions on the export of unprocessed logs harvested from the Federal forest land; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7F52B4DF24BE4FA2AECD79ADFDCDB134">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>recognize all right-of-way agreements in place on Federal forest land prior to commencement of tribal management activities.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2972D1012E784E5785438C665CB7E46A">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Limitation</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Treating Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting management activities pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not be construed to designate the Federal forest land as Indian forest lands for any other purpose.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1B55E5EAF01E4EDBB290AC2A7B587E06">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="H01F31B781B8F4C4085B2FF89045E8A71">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Federal forest land</header>
<text>The term <quote>Federal forest land</quote> means—</text>
<clause id="H1A5A8CC4B312491C8BCBF9DF316EFBEC">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>National Forest System lands; and</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H1DE7FCEBF34C46ABB27B363236D19DE1">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">public lands (as defined in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702(e))), including Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands reconveyed to the United States pursuant to the first section of the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), and Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands.</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8C826089137E476D814B69A1B6AEA16E">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Secretary concerned</header>
<text>The term <term>Secretary concerned</term> means—</text>
<clause id="HBDBF99F8B7614157BF27B8BDCC12C135">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(i); and</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H320C1C2EF838409FA3E7344939A52EB9">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(ii).</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</section>
<enum>VIII</enum>
<header>Miscellaneous Forest Management Provisions</header>
<section id="HFFB2AB992F944153A036224DE427729A">
<enum>801.</enum>
<header>Balancing short- and long-term effects of forest management activities in considering injunctive relief</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">As part of its weighing the equities while considering any request for an injunction that applies to any agency action as part of a forest management activity under titles I through VIII, the court reviewing the agency action shall balance the impact to the ecosystem likely affected by the forest management activity of—</text>
<paragraph id="HACFB9401CD2F410DBF10A3AA8AFA537E">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>the short- and long-term effects of undertaking the agency action; against</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H20C85D14A1624535B7C034C7104CD5CD">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>the short- and long-term effects of not undertaking the action.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section id="H553E472869A043C996EFD20458283295">
<enum>802.</enum>
<header>Conditions on Forest Service road decommissioning</header>
<subsection id="H7641A90061C946C49B49E50110C3EE54">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Consultation with affected county</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whenever any Forest Service defined maintenance level one or two system road within a designated high fire prone area of a unit of the National Forest System is considered for decommissioning, the Forest Supervisor of that unit of the National Forest System shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HA9DD109200774C08915467361496C76C">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>consult with the government of the county containing the road regarding the merits and possible consequences of decommissioning the road; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE762C23BD3EE486D98EAC7694F70153F">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>solicit possible alternatives to decommissioning the road.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HC6C8582ED04F4FBFA8475FBA75DFECEF">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Regional Forester approval</header>
<text>A Forest Service road described in subsection (a) may not be decommissioned without the advance approval of the Regional Forester.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H9CF9AC1167B749F0B603D99EECE4D1E4">
<enum>803.</enum>
<header>Prohibition on application of Eastside Screens requirements on National Forest System lands</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">On and after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may not apply to National Forest System lands any of the amendments to forest plans adopted in the Decision Notice for the Revised Continuation of Interim Management Direction Establishing Riparian, Ecosystem and Wildlife Standards for Timber Sales (commonly known as the Eastside Screens requirements), including all preceding or associated versions of these amendments.</text>
</section>
<section id="H8930F51C65C84C2380B976B28BCCC336">
<enum>804.</enum>
<header>Use of site-specific forest plan amendments for certain projects and activities</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">If the Secretary concerned determines that, in order to conduct a project or carry out an activity implementing a forest plan, an amendment to the forest plan is required, the Secretary concerned shall execute such amendment as a nonsignificant plan amendment through the record of decision or decision notice for the project or activity.</text>
</section>
<section id="H3DA7EA25A3A7411EA6B16C69602707EA">
<enum>805.</enum>
<header>Knutson-Vandenberg Act modifications</header>
<subsection id="H8D266067EAB84206B7270173712922E0">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Deposits of funds from national forest timber purchasers required</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3(a) of the Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b(a)), is amended by striking <quote>The Secretary</quote> and all that follows through <quote>any purchaser</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>The Secretary of Agriculture shall require each purchaser</quote>.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H858E2FB0C4C7460EA530E24F8C21FCB7">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Conditions on use of deposits</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3 of the Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b), is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2E0F8CCCF278425EADC7DE33BF342D91">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by striking <quote>Such deposits</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H63B656231F8546C7ACD85915A05832D3" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H9C788D6E68EF4E0F84438005C36D7F7F">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts deposited under subsection (a)</text>
</subsection>
<after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H62D934933AF04A69B6E82107F7244169">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H70FB76E2C9704D74AAA963635E6E632E">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>by inserting before subsection (d), as so redesignated, the following new subsection (c):</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1DDB7F3C34D4AAE8C585ED5BCBEB83B" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H153695D3B5C440A98205A7C509350600">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H3339306144F94FF586B617A74B576BC6">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts in the special fund established pursuant to this section—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4306FF83E3E84D80BBF2E353E7674154" indent="up1">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>shall be used exclusively to implement activities authorized by subsection (a); and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB289C7B7751A4C508B75A01DF735F03E" indent="up1">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may be used anywhere within the Forest Service Region from which the original deposits were collected.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C213CB2B01B4556BE57F47059A092E5" indent="up1">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Agriculture may not deduct overhead costs from the funds collected under subsection (a), except as needed to fund personnel of the responsible Ranger District for the planning and implementation of the activities authorized by subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="H4007DD7E5F2C44B4B588D20B03249DAC">
<enum>806.</enum>
<header>Exclusion of certain National Forest System lands and public lands</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Unless specifically provided by a provision of titles I through VIII, the authorities provided by such titles do not apply with respect to any National Forest System lands or public lands—</text>
<paragraph id="H3510A8845DD148328F6A9AD19D6DB9F3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that are included in the National Wilderness Preservation System;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE954F1B12A1C48F0A9EB465F87C74AB7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that are located within an inventoried roadless area unless the forest management activity to be carried out under such authority is consistent with the forest plan applicable to the area; or</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24D12C95B51E42178F5368D8D3B67CD6">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on which timber harvesting for any purpose is prohibited by statute.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<enum>IX</enum>
<header>Major Disaster for Wildfire on Federal Land</header>
<section id="H5F8F6E5A095B4820A6589E8FB8507A86" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>901.</enum>
<header>Wildfire on Federal lands</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H70B4198DFAD24777B3380718F3B7F3C9">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by striking <quote>(2)</quote> and all that follows through <quote>means</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="HFE1BF00D50E846B99ABB9D94852BA6D4" display-inline="no-display-inline">
<paragraph id="H96B1BC17609F4CC6A95B33723A67D764">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Major disaster</header>
<subparagraph id="H7A168B3DFFD04988BE2D12E06120738B">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Major disaster</header>
<text>The term <quote>major disaster</quote> means</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF8A05BA230284A7586E05D031BFE7EDF">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H453383BE04E94F29804FBE0635AC9E1C" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H0EDDBAD8DCE94E0A8C097A3A974A65F0">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands</quote> means any wildfire or wildfires, which in the determination of the President under section 802 warrants assistance under section 803 to supplement the efforts and resources of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture—</text>
<clause id="H4F1D7A599EB940B39075B3B31C428437">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>on Federal lands; or</text>
</clause>
<clause id="H6C52D2FE52EE40DFBC781D3EE66EBCA3">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>on non-Federal lands pursuant to a fire protection agreement or cooperative agreement.</text>
</clause>
</subparagraph>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
</quoted-block>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section id="H302B2C5A1EE747FEB0ADA7CC90717D1F">
<enum>902.</enum>
<header>Declaration of a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HC51E2DBD1C514B03AD4A74BC53B1F8AA">
<title id="HAC69FFB65E8D4975B61FA412E4DF627A">
<enum>VIII</enum>
<header>Major Disaster for Wildfire on Federal Land</header>
<section id="H5A762F91B203441EA989F539FE5CE5E9">
<enum>801.</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">As used in this title—</text>
<paragraph id="H8499B8A6D2054357BA3F121A32418391">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Federal land</header>
<text>The term <quote>Federal land</quote> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H434EE733872C4D5A832D630A51182564">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>any land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB3E1BD80677C46F59B646FB1F4787FC9">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>any land under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service. </text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF1EA7A064A144473B1F5706919C323E7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Federal land management agencies</header>
<text>The term <quote>Federal land management agencies</quote> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3DEA0CCB848C41C0B0C6F882181A0329">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>the Bureau of Land Management;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H68FD4E7BD8DF4690B235B2167C3D4F5F">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>the National Park Service;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF21072C3E2634E499585D9A93924BFB2">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>the Bureau of Indian Affairs;</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H66F94B8F834C4FEDBF114B4501B24CD9">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and</text>
</subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H677ADC58C11D4D3ABD913C39C027A60B">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>the United States Forest Service.</text>
</subparagraph>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA271BF4B14364CB3B22119C2FDDD6423">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Wildfire suppression operations</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>wildfire suppression operations</quote> means the emergency and unpredictable aspects of wildland firefighting, including support, response, emergency stabilization activities, and other emergency management activities of wildland firefighting on Federal lands (or on non-Federal lands pursuant to a fire protection agreement or cooperative agreement) by the Federal land management agencies covered by the wildfire suppression subactivity of the Wildland Fire Management account or the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund account of the Federal land management agencies.</text>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section id="HE5664130E11D4045B3630E7242573D7C">
<enum>802.</enum>
<header>Procedure for declaration of a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands</header>
<subsection id="HF0A050A9463445C8ABEDDE8FFFAC73B3">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture may submit a request to the President consistent with the requirements of this title for a declaration by the President that a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands exists.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H84DE61D2F77547D099A414DBF5E9BE0E">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<text>A request for a declaration by the President that a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands exists shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H7FF81DB67BA64939B36C2E70ED195ACB">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>be made in writing by the respective Secretary;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA598A0D154E44894AB004A69E94A7917">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>certify that the amount appropriated in the current fiscal year for wildfire suppression operations of the Federal land management agencies under the jurisdiction of the respective Secretary, net of any concurrently enacted rescissions of wildfire suppression funds, increases the total unobligated balance of amounts available for wildfire suppression by an amount equal to or greater than the average total costs incurred by the Federal land management agencies per year for wildfire suppression operations, including the suppression costs in excess of appropriated amounts, over the previous ten fiscal years;</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9AD4DED99AEA40CBA96D281191F80AB4">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>certify that the amount available for wildfire suppression operations of the Federal land management agencies under the jurisdiction of the respective Secretary will be obligated not later than 30 days after such Secretary notifies the President that wildfire suppression funds will be exhausted to fund ongoing and anticipated wildfire suppression operations related to the wildfire on which the request for the declaration of a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands pursuant to this title is based; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1EFD1C275E494ADEA194F5996290CBFD">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>specify the amount required in the current fiscal year to fund wildfire suppression operations related to the wildfire on which the request for the declaration of a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands pursuant to this title is based.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H0858DFCA0271477AA0C57AD35B889551" commented="no">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Declaration</header>
<text>Based on the request of the respective Secretary under this title, the President may declare that a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands exists.</text>
</subsection>
</section>
<section id="HF35AB739718B48C795629A870760BB8C">
<enum>803.</enum>
<header>Wildfire on Federal lands assistance</header>
<subsection id="HFEFF83AAE93A43CB81F472D2221455A8">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>In a major disaster for wildfire on Federal lands, the President may transfer funds to the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct wildfire suppression operations on Federal lands (and non-Federal lands pursuant to a fire protection agreement or cooperative agreement).</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H7A4EF66664234011AF3B6D3F5C60ECD9">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Wildfire suppression operations account</header>
<text>The President shall establish a specific account for the assistance available pursuant to a declaration under section 802. Such account may only be used to fund assistance pursuant to this title.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H4E46537147FB4A18AFB1F61D42210DCF">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Limitation</header>
<paragraph id="HD7EC8ED77E174C6F8A40D812519367D8">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Limitation of transfer</header>
<text>The assistance available pursuant to a declaration under section 802 is limited to the transfer of the amount requested pursuant to section 802(b)(4). The assistance available for transfer shall not exceed the amount contained in the wildfire suppression operations account established pursuant to subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCF44D7C1BD9D4482BC11677E036E51B4">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Transfer of funds</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds under this section shall be transferred from the wildfire suppression operations account to the wildfire suppression subactivity of the Wildland Fire Management Account.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H0416F684973E46EFAAA19B9616A24FC7">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Prohibition of other transfers</header>
<text>Except as provided in this section, no funds may be transferred to or from the account established pursuant to subsection (b) to or from any other fund or account.</text>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HD556B9E9C63D4D5180C4E3A0E3D82165" display-inline="no-display-inline">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Reimbursement for Wildfire suppression operations on non-Federal land</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If amounts transferred under subsection (c) are used to conduct wildfire suppression operations on non-Federal land, the respective Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H5E989E2752A84762B61A820B4302FF72">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>secure reimbursement for the cost of such wildfire suppression operations conducted on the non-Federal land; and</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9F55D9E654E2492291FBC0A5F50D7C40">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">transfer the amounts received as reimbursement to the wildfire suppression operations account established pursuant to subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="H715DF186B8A44790A107BB1EC21D8BF6">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Annual Accounting and reporting requirements</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year for which assistance is received pursuant to this section, the respective Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Agriculture, Appropriations, the Budget, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Appropriations, the Budget, Energy and Natural Resources, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Indian Affairs of the Senate, and make available to the public, a report that includes the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H679052C1006F4FEEA5C58D24C0B1B961">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The risk-based factors that influenced management decisions regarding wildfire suppression operations of the Federal land management agencies under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEF574689893F47ED8EA2E9794EBEACF7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Specific discussion of a statistically significant sample of large fires, in which each fire is analyzed for cost drivers, effectiveness of risk management techniques, resulting positive or negative impacts of fire on the landscape, impact of investments in preparedness, suggested corrective actions, and such other factors as the respective Secretary considers appropriate. </text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2D93F1949B404F49B187EAA34338D93C">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Total expenditures for wildfire suppression operations of the Federal land management agencies under the jurisdiction of the respective Secretary, broken out by fire sizes, cost, regional location, and such other factors as the such Secretary considers appropriate. </text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0833865348C4407FBD54FF7880847393">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>Lessons learned.</text>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="H06B3A7B7D5414ABDB2E73F406236E35A">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such other matters as the respective Secretary considers appropriate.</text>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection id="HE8F30EAC08724596A032F770D8C8ACC6">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Savings provision</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this title shall limit the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, Indian tribe, or a State from receiving assistance through a declaration made by the President under this Act when the criteria for such declaration have been met. </text>
</subsection>
</section>
.
903.
No funds may be transferred to or from the Federal land management agencies’ wildfire suppression operations accounts referred to in section 801(3) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to or from any account or subactivity of the Federal land management agencies, as defined in section 801(2) of such Act, that is not used to cover the cost of wildfire suppression operations.