3.0.0 2791 2023-01-11T13:17:05Z 2023-01-11T13:17:05Z Senate S S 2009-11-18 111 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2010-03-10T22:38:46Z Referred to 2009-11-18T17:15:13Z BLM Contract Extension Act 111 3759 HR 2010-03-10 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. Related bill CRS 2010-03-10 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. 111-565. Committee 2009-11-18 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11494-11495) IntroReferral 2009-11-18 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11494) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-11-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N B000243 Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] MAX BAUCUS D MT SIEBEN 2009-11-18 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2009-11-18 True T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2009-11-18 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Economic performance and conditions Forests, forestry, trees Public contracts and procurement Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2009-11-18 Introduced in Senate 2010-03-08T20:18:04Z Forest Harvest Opportunity Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, within 30 days of a timber purchaser requesting an economy-related contract extension of a qualifying contract for the sale of timber from land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) between the Secretary and the purchaser, to modify the contract to add three years to such contract's expiration date.

Defines qualifying contract as a contract, executed on or before December 31, 2008, for the sale of timber from BLM lands: (1) for which there is unharvested volume remaining; (2) for which, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, a timber purchaser makes a written request to the Secretary for an economic related contract extension; and (3) that has not been terminated prior to the request for an extension.

Requires the timber purchaser to waive any and all claims its has against the United States involving the qualifying contract that exist on the date such contract is modified.

Prohibits anything in this Act from affecting any claim by the United States against any timber purchaser, including those claims that arose under a qualifying contract before the date on which its expiration date was extended.

]]> Forest Harvest Opportunity Act Display Title Forest Harvest Opportunity Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant economy-related contract extensions of a certain timber contracts between the Secretary of the Interior and timber purchasers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Forest Harvest Opportunity Act Introduced in Senate 2009-11-18T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s2791is/xml/BILLS-111s2791is.xml 2010-03-10 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-565. 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.