3.0.0 199 2025-12-05T08:39:55Z 2025-12-05T08:39:55Z Senate S S 2023-02-01 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/199 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Reported By 2023-07-11T20:25:41Z Markup By 2023-05-17T17:19:37Z Referred To 2023-02-01T15:44:02Z S. Rept. 118-50 118 674 HR 2024-01-31 Subcommittee Hearings Held Identical bill CRS 118 1456 S 2023-05-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Related bill CRS 2023-07-11 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 122. Calendars 2023-07-11 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-50. Committee 2023-07-11 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-50. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2023-05-17 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. Committee 2023-02-01 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2023-02-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT N F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2023-02-01 True 2024-07-16T20:35:00Z https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60530 As reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 11, 2023 Public Lands and Natural Resources Environmental assessment, monitoring, research 2023-05-31T15:45:21Z Forests, forestry, trees 2023-05-31T15:45:21Z Land use and conservation 2023-05-31T15:45:21Z Public contracts and procurement 2023-05-31T15:45:21Z Public Lands and Natural Resources 2023-02-23T20:30:23Z

00 2023-02-01 Introduced in Senate 2023-03-15T16:51:41Z <p><strong>Root and Stem Project Authorization Act of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct certain forest restoration projects.</p> <p>Specifically, the Forest Service or BLM may enter into an agreement for a project on federal land that was developed through a collaborative process that meets local and rural community needs if </p> <ul> <li> the party with whom it enters into an agreement initially provides the Forest Service or BLM with a portion of the funding necessary to complete any analysis deemed necessary under federal law for consideration of the proposed project;</li> <li>the Forest Service or BLM uses the funding to pay a contractor included on a list of contractors that it maintains to conduct the analysis; </li> <li>upon completion of the analysis, the Forest Service or BLM solicits bids to carry out the project and enters into a contract or agreement under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to carry out the project; and</li> <li>using certain receipts from the project, the Forest Service or BLM repays the initially provided funding.</li> </ul> <p>For purposes of a civil action relating to such a project, any person that participated in the collaborative process to develop the proposal for the project shall be (1) entitled to intervene, as of right, in any subsequent civil action; and (2) considered to be a full participant in any settlement negotiation relating to the project.</p> <p>The authority to enter into an agreement and the requirement to maintain a list of contractors shall expire on January 1, 2033.</p>

25 2023-07-11 Reported to Senate 2023-07-25T19:21:48Z <p><strong>Root and Stem Project Authorization Act of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct certain forest restoration projects.</p> <p>Specifically, the Forest Service or BLM may enter into an agreement for a project on federal land that was developed through a collaborative process that meets local and rural community needs if </p> <ul> <li> the party with whom it enters into an agreement initially provides the Forest Service or BLM with a portion of the funding necessary to complete any analysis deemed necessary under federal law for consideration of the proposed project;</li> <li>the Forest Service or BLM uses the funding to pay a contractor included on a list of contractors that it maintains to conduct the analysis; </li> <li>upon completion of the analysis, the Forest Service or BLM solicits bids to carry out the project and enters into a contract or agreement under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to carry out the project; and</li> <li>using certain receipts from the project, the Forest Service or BLM repays the initially provided funding.</li> </ul> <p>For purposes of a civil action relating to such a project, any person that participated in the collaborative process to develop the proposal for the project shall be (1) entitled to intervene, as of right, in any subsequent civil action; and (2) considered to be a full participant in any settlement negotiation relating to the project.</p> <p>The authority to enter into an agreement and the requirement to maintain a list of contractors shall expire on January 1, 2033.</p>

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