3.0.0 1910 2023-01-15T09:03:29Z 2023-01-15T09:03:29Z Senate S S 2003-11-20 108 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2004-02-12T22:17:24Z Reported by 2004-04-26T18:17:52Z Markup by 2004-03-24T20:53:00Z Referred to 2003-11-21T00:37:21Z S. Rept. 108-254 To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program using geospatial and information management technologies to inventory, monitor, characterize, assess, and identify forest stands and potential forest stands, and for other purposes. 108 3566 HR 2003-12-18 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Related bill CRS 2004-04-26 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 477. Calendars 2004-04-26 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 108-254. Committee 2004-04-26 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 108-254. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2004-03-24 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. Committee 2004-02-12 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-416. Committee 2003-11-20 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2003-11-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N 2004-03-29T06:00:00Z S. 1910, A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and management program for forests derived from public domain land http://www.cbo.gov/publication/15532 <p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 24, 2004</p> 2004-03-29T06:00:00Z S. 1910, A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and management program for forests derived from public domain land https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15532 Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 24, 2004 Public Lands and Natural Resources Acid rain Animals Emergency Management Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Fire prevention Forest conservation Forest ecology Forest fires Forest health Forest management Forestry research Forests, forestry, trees Geodesy Geographic information systems Insect control Insects National forests Non-native species Oregon Private forests Remote sensing Science, Technology, Communications Space activities Tree diseases Weather Weather forecasting Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2003-11-20 Introduced in Senate 2003-12-03T16:26:23Z Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to use geospatial and information management technologies (including remote sensing imaging and decision support systems) to inventory, monitor, and identify National Forest System and private (with consent) forest stands.

Directs the Secretary to carry out such program through: (1) remote sensing technology of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey; (2) emerging geospatial capabilities in research activities; (3) validating techniques; and (4) integration of results into pilot operational systems.

Directs the Secretary to address: (1) environmental threats (including insect, disease, invasive species, fire, acid deposition, and weather-related risks and other episodic events); (2) forest degradation, and preventive management practices; and (3) characterization of vegetation types, density, fire regimes, and post-fire effects. Directs the Secretary to designate a facility in the Ochoco National Forest headquarters in Prineville, Oregon, to address such issues, with particular emphasis on coniferous forest stands in the Western United States.

Directs the Secretary develop an early warning system for catastrophic environmental forest threats.

]]> 80 2004-04-26 Reported to Senate without amendment 2004-05-07T20:17:09Z (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

(Sec. 1) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to use geospatial and information management technologies (including remote sensing imaging and decision support systems) to inventory, monitor, and identify National Forest System and private (with consent) forest stands.

Directs the Secretary to carry out such program through: (1) remote sensing technology of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey; (2) emerging geospatial capabilities in research activities; (3) validating techniques; and (4) integration of results into pilot operational systems.

Directs the Secretary to address: (1) environmental threats (including insect, disease, invasive species, fire, acid deposition, and weather-related risks and other episodic events); (2) forest degradation, and preventive management practices; (3) management practices; and (4) characterization of vegetation types, density, fire regimes, and post-fire effects. Directs the Secretary to designate a facility in the Ochoco National Forest headquarters in Prineville, Oregon, to address such issues, with particular emphasis on coniferous forest stands in the Western United States.

Directs the Secretary to develop an early warning system for catastrophic environmental forest threats.

Authorizes appropriations.

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