A bill to amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide for stewardship contracting projects, and for other purposes.
Latest action · May 3, 2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedMay 3, 2017
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
This bill amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service to enter into stewardship contracting projects with private persons or other public entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the National Forest System that meet local and rural community needs.
The bill states that the land management goals of a project may include: (1) road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality; (2) soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries, or other resource values; (3) setting of prescribed fires to improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of stands or to improve wildlife habitat; (4) removing vegetation or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce fire hazards, or achieve other land management objectives; (5) watershed restoration and maintenance; (6) restoration and maintenance of wildlife and fish; or (7) control of noxious and exotic weeds and reestablishing native plant species.
The Forest Service shall establish and participate in a multiparty monitoring and evaluation process that assesses the projects conducted pursuant to this bill.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 3, 2017Introduced in Senate
- May 3, 2017Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Congressional oversight
- Ecology
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Pest management
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Roads and highways
- Rural conditions and development
- Water quality
- Watersheds
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 3, 2017Introduced in Senate
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