3.0.0 2350 2023-01-11T13:38:52Z 2023-01-11T13:38:52Z Senate S 2018-01-29 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-01-29T20:33:40Z 2018-01-29 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2018-01-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH N Public Lands and Natural Resources Air quality Alternative and renewable resources Building construction Climate change and greenhouse gases Energy efficiency and conservation Forests, forestry, trees Land use and conservation Materials Wildlife conservation and habitat protection Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2018-01-29 Introduced in Senate 2019-08-19T14:21:11Z Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to create certain programs that provide incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Specifically, USDA must establish an incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon sequestration on U.S. private forest land (eligible land) through carbon incentives contracts and conservation easement agreements. Under the program, USDA must make payments to owners of eligible land for: (1) certain forestry practices that increase carbon sequestration and storage over a designated period on eligible land, and (2) conservation easements on eligible land.

In addition, USDA must establish an incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emission reductions from materials in nonresidential buildings used for commercial or state or local government purposes. Under the program, USDA must provide owners of such buildings payments for the use of eligible products for sequestering carbon in those buildings. Eligible products are commercial or industrial products that are composed of biological products, including renewable agricultural and forestry materials.

]]> Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018 Display Title Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a forest incentives program to keep forests intact and sequester carbon on private forest land of the United States, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018 Introduced in Senate 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2350is/xml/BILLS-115s2350is.xml 2018-01-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 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.