3.0.0 1966 2023-01-11T13:27:02Z 2023-01-11T13:27:02Z Senate S S 2014-01-28 113 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2014-02-06T15:00:00Z Referred to 2014-01-28T21:17:20Z FLAME Act Amendments Act of 2014 113 2593 S 2014-07-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Related bill CRS 2014-02-06 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-349. Committee 2014-01-28 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2014-01-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY N F000444 Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] JEFF FLAKE R AZ 2014-02-06 False H001041 Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] Dean Heller R NV 2014-02-06 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative remedies Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration Congressional oversight Department of Agriculture Endangered and threatened species Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Forests, forestry, trees Government trust funds Land use and conservation Performance measurement Public contracts and procurement State and local finance Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2014-01-28 Introduced in Senate 2014-04-01T20:47:21Z National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct projects that involve the management or sale of national forest material (covered projects) within certain National Forest System (NFS) lands (Forest Management Emphasis Areas).

Makes timber sale contracts under the National Forest Management Act of 1976 the primary means for carrying out covered projects under this Act.

Requires the Secretary to identify, prioritize, and carry out covered projects in Forest Management Emphasis Areas that mechanically treat a total of at least 7.5 million acres in such areas during a specified 15-year period.

Requires the Secretary to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) by completing an environmental assessment of the direct environmental effects of each proposed covered project, limited to the proposed agency action and one alternative.

Requires administrative review of covered projects to occur only in accordance with the special administrative review process established by the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003.

Establishes a pilot program in the USDA that: (1) authorizes the use of arbitration instead of judicial review of a decision made following the special administrative process for a covered project, and (2) shall be the only means to challenge a covered project in a Forest Management Emphasis Area during the 15-year period.

Directs the Secretary, for FY2015 and each fiscal year until termination of this Act, to make to each county in which a covered project is carried out annual payments of 25% of the amounts received from that project.

Requires the Secretary, after making such payments, to use amounts received from covered projects during such period to make deposits into the fund established under the Knutson-Vandenburg Act and the fund established under the National Forest Management Act of 1976 in contributions equal to the amounts collected under those Acts for projects conducted on NFS lands.

Requires the Secretary to develop performance measures that evaluate the degree to which this Act's purposes and the minimum acreage requirements are being achieved.

]]> National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014 Display Title National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014 Short Titles as Introduced National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014 Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide for the restoration of the economic and ecological health of National Forest System land and rural communities, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2014-01-28T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s1966is/xml/BILLS-113s1966is.xml 2014-02-06 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-349. 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.