[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2100 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2100

To provide for rural development, multiple-use management, expenditures 
     under the Knutson-Vandenburg Act of 1930, and ecosystem-based 
      management of certain forest lands, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 10 (legislative day, May 2), 1994

  Mr. DeConcini (for himself and Mr. Craig) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for rural development, multiple-use management, expenditures 
     under the Knutson-Vandenburg Act of 1930, and ecosystem-based 
      management of certain forest lands, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stewardship End-Result Contracts 
Demonstration Act''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSES.

    (a) The purpose of this Act is to--
            (1) develop and implement, as national demonstration 
        projects, ecosystem-based, end result-oriented management 
        practices for forestry in general;
            (2) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to demonstrate 
        the feasibility of end-result stewardship contracts for 
        National forests, State forests, and private forests in the 
        United States;
            (3) improve the management of and develop economically 
        efficient management tools for ecosystem-based management 
        applicable to all of the forest lands of the United States, 
        both private and public;
            (4) provide for rural development, rural jobs, and economic 
        transition opportunities for forest dependent communities 
        affected by changes in timber harvest volumes;
            (5) authorize an alternative management technique for pest 
        infested or pest damaged forest lands in general; and
            (6) provide additional opportunities to achieve mandates 
        established in--
                    (A) the Multiple-Use Sustained Yield Act of 1960 
                (Public Law 86-517);
                    (B) the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
                Planning Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-378);
                    (C) the Clarke-McNary Act of 1924 (Public Law 68-
                270);
                    (D) the Deposit of Sale Instruments in Treasury Act 
                of 1940 (Public Law 76-631);
                    (E) the Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act 
                of 1977 (Public Law 95-192); and
                    (F) the Twenty-Five Percent Fund Act (35 Stat. 
                251).

SEC. 3. USE OF TIMBER REVENUES.

    (a) Authorization.--The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through 
the officers of the National Forest Service in charge of the forest 
lands referred to in subsection (b), may apply all or a part of the 
revenues received for timber removed from such lands under a 
stewardship end-result contract as an offset against the cost of 
stewardship services provided, including--
            (1) site preparation;
            (2) replanting;
            (3) silviculture programs;
            (4) recreation;
            (5) wildlife habitat enhancement;
            (6) soil conservation; and
            (7) other multiple-use enhancements.
    (b) Applicability.--The authority granted in this Act may be 
applied to the management of--
            (1) the Green Mountain National Forest of Vermont;
            (2) the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire and 
        Maine;
            (3) the Talladega, Tuskegee, Conecuh and William B. 
        Bankhead National Forests of Alabama;
            (4) acquired and other lands in the Angora Project, Lake 
        Tahoe Basin Management Unit;
            (5) the Kendrick Project, Coconino National Forest; and
            (6) the Priest Lake Ranger District Project, Idaho 
        Panhandle National Forest.
    (c) Environmental Assessment.--The National Environment Policy Act 
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) shall apply to the projects referred 
to in subsection (b), prior to the award of any contract.

SEC. 4. DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION RESULTS.

    (a) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to 
disseminate the results of the research and demonstration efforts 
authorized under this act that are of the benefit to private and public 
forest owners.
    (b) The Secretary may use the authorities granted to him in--
            (1) the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research 
        Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-307);
            (2) McIntyre-Stennis Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 806); and
            (3) Wood Residue Utilization Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-
        554).

SEC. 5. EXPIRATION.

    This Act shall be effective during the period beginning on the date 
of enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 1994.

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