To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a demonstration program to facilitate landscape restoration programs within certain units of the National Park System established by law to preserve and interpret resources associated with American history, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Jul 20, 2006 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 337.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 17, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to carry out a demonstration program that provides that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for expenditure within units of the National Park System from which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the restoration or protection of park resources or values.
Instructs the Secretary to permit each of the existing 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield Sites to participate in the demonstration program if the unit has in place a general management plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources management plan approved pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cultural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduction.
Requires each unit selected to participate in the demonstration program to retain receipts from the sale or disposal of timber removed. Provides for such receipts to be available for expenditure for within a unit for the following purposes only: (1) landscape restoration; (2) interpretive services; (3) eradication of disease, insects, or invasive species; or (4) fuel load reduction.
Requires the Secretary to submit: (1) a report containing a specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units authorized to participate in the demonstration program; and (2) a report containing the results of such demonstration program, including any resource or other impacts, positive or negative, on each participating unit.
Sunsets the authority granted to the Secretary to carry out the demonstration program four years after the enactment of this Act.
Cosponsors
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Actions 9
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- Jul 20, 2006Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 337.
- Jul 20, 2006Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-586.
- Jun 21, 2006Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 21, 2006Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Jun 21, 2006Subcommittee on National Parks Discharged.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Commemorations
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Forest management
- Historic sites
- History
- Insect control
- Landscape protection
- Military history
- Military parks
- National parks
- Non-native species
- Pest control
- Planning
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Sunset legislation
- Timber sales
- Tourism
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 20, 2006Reported in House
- May 17, 2006Introduced in House
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