[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 309 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 309

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a demonstration 
  program to facilitate landscape restoration programs within certain 
 units of the National Park System established by law to preserve and 
  interpret resources associated with American history, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2007

  Mr. Pearce introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a demonstration 
  program to facilitate landscape restoration programs within certain 
 units of the National Park System established by law to preserve and 
  interpret resources associated with American history, 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. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to establish a demonstration program to 
facilitate landscape restoration programs within those units of the 
National Park System established by statute to preserve and interpret 
resources associated with American military history.

SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.

    (a) Authorization.--The Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in 
this Act referred to as the ``Secretary''), acting through the Director 
of the National Park Service, shall carry out a demonstration program 
that provides that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for 
expenditure within units of the National Park System from which the 
timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the restoration or 
protection of park resources or values.
    (b) Participation.--The Secretary shall permit each of the 24 
National Battlefields, National Battlefield Parks, National Military 
Parks, and National Battlefield Sites in existence on the date of the 
enactment of this Act to participate in the demonstration program 
authorized by subsection (a) if the unit has in place, before the date 
of the enactment of this Act, a general management plan, cultural 
landscape plan, or other resources management plan approved pursuant to 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 
that identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cultural or 
historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduction.
    (c) Use of Receipts.--Each unit selected to participate in the 
demonstration program authorized under subsection (a) shall retain 
receipts from the sale or disposal of timber removed from that unit. 
Such receipts shall be available for expenditure without further 
appropriation or fiscal year limitation for the following purposes 
only:
            (1) Landscape restoration within the unit.
            (2) Interpretive services within the unit.
            (3) Eradication of disease, insects, or invasive species 
        within the unit.
            (4) Fuel load reduction within the unit.

SEC. 3. REPORTS.

    (a) Timeline.--Six months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the House Resources 
Committee and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that 
contains a specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units 
authorized to participate in the demonstration program under this Act. 
The timeline shall list--
            (1) those units that are ready to remove timber 
        immediately;
            (2) those units that will be able to remove the timber 
        within 6 months;
            (3) those units that will take longer than 6 months to 
        remove the timber and an explanation why that removal will take 
        longer than 6 months; and
            (4) those units where further timber removal is 
        inappropriate and an explanation of why it is inappropriate.
    (b) Results.--Two years after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall submit a report to the House Resources Committee 
and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains 
the results of the demonstration program authorized under this Act, 
including--
            (1) a detailed accounting of the receipts generated in each 
        unit by the demonstration program;
            (2) the expenditure by each unit of those receipts; and
            (3) any resource or other impacts, positive or negative, on 
        each participating unit.

SEC. 4. SUNSET.

    The authority granted to the Secretary in section 2 shall expire 4 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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