National Forest Protection and Restoration Act
Latest action · Oct 12, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 25, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to each: (1) establish a National Heritage Restoration Corps to restore (and monitor) such lands to their natural pre-logging condition; and (2) develop National Heritage Restoration Plans and related standards for regional ecological restoration and monitoring.
Sets forth provisions respecting forest fire and hazardous fuel reduction.
Provides for worker retraining of eligible persons whose jobs have been lost due to terminated timber and logging contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make training grants, including grants for job search and relocation.
Sets forth fund allocation provisions, including amounts for an Environmental Protection Agency investigation of non-wood paper and construction alternatives.
Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to make permanent certain education, transportation, and public purpose payments to States and counties containing Federal land.
Authorizes a private right of action for violations of this Act.
Cosponsors 60
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 25, 2005 to May 9, 2006, with 49 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-KS | Dennis Moore | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Original | Jul 25, 2005 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 12, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Aug 8, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
- Aug 8, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
- Aug 8, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
- Aug 4, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Agriculture and Food
- Air pollution control
- Animals
- Biological diversity
- Building materials
- Citizen lawsuits
- Claims
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Damages
- Dams
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Dislocated workers
- District courts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Employee selection
- Endangered species
- Energy
- Environmental law enforcement
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Evidence (Law)
- Executive reorganization
- Exotic animals
- Exotic plants
- Federal advisory bodies
- Fire prevention
- Fishery management
- Forest conservation
- Forest fires
- Forest roads
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Housing and Community Development
- Impact aid
- Injunctions
- Job hunting
- Jurisdiction
- Labor and Employment
- Landslides
- Larceny
- Law
- Legal fees
- Logging
- Low-income housing
- Lumber trade
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- National forests
- Nonprofit organizations
- Occupational retraining
- Old growth forests
- Paper and paper products
- Pest control
- Pests
- Planning
- Poaching
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Reforestation
- Regional planning
- Relocation
- Restoration ecology
- Revegetation
- Revenue sharing
- Road construction
- Roads and highways
- Rural education
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientists
- Social Welfare
- Soil conservation
- Soil erosion
- Subsidies
- Timber sales
- Transportation and Public Works
- Water Resources Development
- Wildlife refuges
- Wildlife reintroduction
- Wood
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 25, 2005Introduced in House
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