[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1240 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1240

  To make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2001 to provide 
    emergency disaster relief for damages resulting from ice storms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2001

   Mr. Hutchinson (for himself, Mr. Synder, Mr. Berry, and Mr. Ross) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2001 to provide 
    emergency disaster relief for damages resulting from ice storms.

    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 ``Ice Storms Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2001''.

                  TITLE I--SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

    The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide supplemental 
appropriations for fiscal year 2001:

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

                      forestry incentives program

    For an additional amount for ``Forestry Incentives Program'' for 
emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms in December 
2000 in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, $26,000,000.

                               CHAPTER 2

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service

                         national forest system

    For an additional amount for ``National Forest System'' for 
emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms in December 
2000 in the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, $31,452,500: Provided, 
That, of the total amount provided in this paragraph, $31,204,000 shall 
be for the Ouachita National Forest, of which $7,267,000 shall be for 
salvage timber removal, $23,837,000 shall be for reestablishment of 
plantation, and $100,000 shall be for wildlife openings and threatened 
and endangered species: Provided further, That, of the total amount 
provided in this paragraph, $248,500 shall be for the Ozark National 
Forest.

                        wildland fire management

    For an additional amount for ``Wildland Fire Management'' for 
emergency expenses for presuppression and wildfire suppression 
resulting from ice storms in December 2000 in the Ouachita National 
Forest, $2,869,000.

                  capital improvement and maintenance

    For an additional amount for ``Capital Improvement and 
Maintenance'' for emergency expenses resulting from ice storms in 
December 2000 in the Ouachita National Forest, $3,098,000, of which 
$2,448,000 shall be for road cleanup and repair and $650,000 shall be 
for trail cleanup and repair.

                      TITLE II--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.

    Each amount appropriated in this Act--
            (1) is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
        requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; and
            (2) shall be available only to the extent that the 
        President transmits to the Congress an official budget request 
        that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
        as an emergency requirement pursuant to such section.
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