110 HR 309 : To direct the Secretary of the Interior to
U.S. House of Representatives
2007-04-18
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1.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.
2.Demonstration
program authorized
(a)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)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)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.
3.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.
4.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.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.