[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 309 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 309


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 18, 2007

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
 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. REPORT.

    Two years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall submit a report to the House Natural 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives April 17, 2007.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.