3.0.0 1300 2023-01-11T13:24:24Z 2023-01-11T13:24:24Z Senate S S 2013-07-16 113 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2013-07-30T18:27:38Z Reported by 2014-06-02T21:28:14Z Markup by 2013-12-19T14:30:00Z Referred to 2013-07-16T18:54:27Z S. Rept. 113-179 Stewardship End Result Contracting Project Act 113 816 S 2013-04-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Related bill CRS Permanent Stewardship Contracting Authority Act of 2013 113 849 S 2013-04-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Related bill CRS 2014-06-02 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 406. Calendars 2014-06-02 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with amendments. With written report No. 113-179. Committee 2014-06-02 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with amendments. With written report No. 113-179. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2013-12-19 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably. Committee 2013-07-30 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-85. Committee 2013-07-16 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 S5710-5711) IntroReferral 2013-07-16 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5710) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2013-07-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000444 Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] JEFF FLAKE R AZ N M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY 2013-07-16 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2013-07-16 True R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2013-07-16 True H001041 Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] Dean Heller R NV 2013-07-16 True B000243 Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] MAX BAUCUS D MT SIEBEN 2013-07-18 False B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2013-08-01 False H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2013-09-09 False E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. 2013-09-19 False T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2013-09-24 False U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM 2013-10-07 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Agricultural conservation and pollution Ecology Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Fires Forests, forestry, trees Land transfers Land use and conservation Pest management Public contracts and procurement Rural conditions and development Water quality Watersheds Wildlife conservation and habitat protection Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2013-07-16 Introduced in Senate 2014-11-17T21:17:22Z Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), until September 30, 2023, to enter into stewardship contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs.

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.

]]> 01 2014-06-02 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2014-11-18T22:31:48Z Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into stewardship contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs.

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.

Requires a source for performance of an agreement or contract under this Act to be selected on a best-value basis.

Permits a contract, at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), to be considered a contract for the sale of property.

Limits contracts to no more than 10 years.

Allows, as an offset against the cost of services received under the agreement or contract, the value of removed timber or other forest products.

Sets forth requirements for fire liability provisions.

Permits the Forest Service and the BLM to collect monies from an agreement or contract if the collection is a secondary objective of negotiating the contract that will best achieve the purposes of this Act.

Allows recovery of certain costs of removal of timber or other forest products, notwithstanding that the contractor did not harvest the timber.

Authorizes performance and payment bonds in an amount determined sufficient to protect the investment in receipts by the federal government generated by the contractor from the estimated value of the forest products to be removed.

Requires a multiparty monitoring and evaluation process to assess the stewardship contracting projects conducted under this Act.

Requires annual reports to Congress on: (1) the status of agreements or contracts under this Act, (2) the accomplishments that have resulted, and (3) the role of local communities in the development of agreements or contract plans.

Instructs the Forest Service and the BLM to offset any direct spending authorized under this Act using any additional amounts that may be made available to the Forest Service or the BLM for the applicable fiscal year.

]]> Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act Display Title Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide for the conduct of stewardship end result contracting projects. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act S Senate Reported to Senate 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s1300rs/xml/BILLS-113s1300rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2013-07-16T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s1300is/xml/BILLS-113s1300is.xml 2014-06-02 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 406. 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.