3.0.0 2079 2023-01-13T04:49:32Z 2023-01-13T04:49:32Z Senate S S 2005-11-18 109 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-11-18T23:45:58Z Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act 109 4200 HR 2006-08-02 Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-826. Related bill CRS 2005-11-18 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2005-11-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. N T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. 2005-11-18 True A000109 Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO] A. ALLARD R CO WAYNE 2005-11-18 True B001126 Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT] CONRAD BURNS R MT R. 2005-11-18 True T000162 Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY] CRAIG THOMAS R WY 2005-11-18 True C000858 Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID] LARRY CRAIG R ID EDWIN 2005-12-15 False C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2006-05-08 False E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. 2006-07-31 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Department of Agriculture Department of the Interior Disaster relief Economic impact statements Economics and Public Finance Ecosystem management Emergency Management Employee training Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Environmental research Federal-Indian relations Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Fire prevention Forest conservation Forest ecology Forest fires Forest health Forest management Forest products Forest roads Forestry research Government Operations and Politics Government trust funds Indian lands Judicial review Labor and Employment Land use Landscape protection Law Maintenance and repair Mediation Minorities National forests Public meetings Reforestation Science, Technology, Communications Timber sales Trees Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2005-11-18 Introduced in Senate 2006-02-06T15:12:59Z Forests for Future Generations Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to develop research protocols for collecting and analyzing scientific information about the effectiveness and ecological impacts of catastrophic event recovery projects and emergency stabilization treatments undertaken as part of a burned area emergency response to increase the long-term benefits of management activities and to decrease short-term impacts. Requires such Secretaries to enter into at least one cooperative agreement with one land-grant college or university in each Forest Service Region to form forest health partnerships to utilize the education, research, and outreach capacity of land-grant colleges and universities to address the recovery of forested land after a catastrophic event.

Requires such Secretaries to conduct catastrophic event recovery evaluations of damaged federal lands.

Directs such Secretaries to prepare a list of pre-approved management practices that may be immediately implemented as part of catastrophic event recovery projects or catastrophic event research projects.

Requires determinations of whether or not to: (1) use any pre-approved management practices that can be immediately implemented; and (2) develop and carry out a recovery or research project or part of such a project using the alternative arrangements authorized by this Act.

Directs such Secretaries to clarify agency-wide guidance regarding reforestation in response to catastrophic events.

Provides for assistance to restore landscapes and communities affected by catastrophic events.

Directs such Secretaries to establish a community protection and recovery fund for each recovery project.

Provides for the availability and use of pre-approved management practices and alternative arrangements on National Forest experimental forests.

]]> Forests for Future Generations Act Display Title Forests for Future Generations Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to promptly implement recovery treatments in response to catastrophic events affecting the natural resources of Forest Service land and Bureau of Land Management Land, respectively, to support the recovery of non-Federal land damaged by catastrophic events, to assist impacted communities, to revitalize Forest Service experimental forests, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Forests for Future Generations Act Introduced in Senate 2005-11-18T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s2079is/xml/BILLS-109s2079is.xml 2005-11-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.