[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2295 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2295

      To terminate the participation of the Forest Service in the 
Recreational Fee Demonstration Program and to offset the revenues lost 
  by such termination by prohibiting the use of appropriated funds to 
 finance engineering support for sales of timber from National Forest 
                             System lands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 22, 1999

  Mrs. Capps introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
      To terminate the participation of the Forest Service in the 
Recreational Fee Demonstration Program and to offset the revenues lost 
  by such termination by prohibiting the use of appropriated funds to 
 finance engineering support for sales of timber from National Forest 
                             System lands.

    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 ``Forest Access Immediate Relief Act 
of 1999''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF FOREST SERVICE RECREATIONAL FEE DEMONSTRATION 
              PROGRAM.

    (a) Termination.--On and after the effective date of this section, 
the Secretary of Agriculture may not impose or collect any fee under 
the authority of the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program authorized 
by section 315 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in section 101(c) of Public Law 
104-134; 16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note). Amounts collected before that date 
shall continue to be used by the Secretary in the manner provided in 
that section.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 315 of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in 
section 101(c) of Public Law 104-134; 16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note), is 
amended as follows:
            (1) In subsection (a), by striking ``and the Secretary of 
        Agriculture (acting through the Forest Service) shall each'' 
        and inserting ``shall''.
            (2) In subsection (b), by striking ``appropriate 
        Secretary'' and inserting ``Secretary''.
            (3) In subsection (e), by striking ``and the Secretary of 
        Agriculture''.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section and the amendments made by this 
section shall take effect October 1, 1999.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FOREST SERVICE PAYMENT OF ENGINEERING SUPPORT 
              FOR TIMBER SALES.

    (a) Prohibition on Use of Federal Funds.--Funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available to the Forest Service in appropriation Acts 
may not be used to provide engineering support for the timber sales 
program for National Forest System lands, including engineering support 
to plan, oversee design, and administer road work funded by timber 
purchasers.
    (b) Payment by Timber Purchasers.--In appraising timber and setting 
a minimum bid for trees, portions of trees, or forest products located 
on National Forest System lands proposed for sale under section 14 of 
the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a) or any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall include an 
additional charge in an amount sufficient to cover the annual costs 
incurred by the Forest Service to provide engineering support for the 
timber sales program.
    (c) Use of Payments.--Amounts collected from timber purchasers as 
required by subsection (b) shall be available to the Secretary of 
Agriculture, without further appropriation, to pay costs incurred by 
the Forest Service to provide engineering support for the timber sales 
program. All excess amounts collected under such subsection shall be 
used on National Forest System lands in the manner authorized by 
section 315(c)(3) of the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in section 101(c) of 
Public Law 104-134; 16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note), in order to offset at 
least partially the loss of revenues to the Forest Service as a result 
of the termination of Forest Service participation in the Recreational 
Fee Demonstration Program by section 2.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section take effect October 1, 1999.
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