[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2601 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2601

To provide permanent authority for the Forest Service and the Bureau of 
  Land Management to enter into stewardship contracting projects with 
private persons or other public or private entities to perform services 
 to achieve land management goals for National Forest System lands and 
      the public lands that meet local and rural community needs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2011

Mr. Lujan (for himself, Mrs. Napolitano, and Mr. Blumenauer) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
   Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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 provide permanent authority for the Forest Service and the Bureau of 
  Land Management to enter into stewardship contracting projects with 
private persons or other public or private entities to perform services 
 to achieve land management goals for National Forest System lands and 
      the public lands that meet local and rural community needs.

    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 Stewardship and Fire Fuels 
Reductions Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT STEWARDSHIP END RESULT CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.

    Section 347(a) of the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(e) of 
division A of Public Law 105-277; 16 U.S.C. 2104 note), as most 
recently amended by section 323 of Public Law 108-7 (117 Stat. 275), is 
amended by striking ``Until September 30, 2013, the'' and inserting 
``Hereafter, the''.
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