[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4396 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4396

To extend Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management stewardship 
       end result contracting authority, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2012

 Mr. Lujan (for himself and Mr. Gosar) 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 extend Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management stewardship 
       end result contracting authority, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels 
Reductions Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. STEWARDSHIP END RESULT CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.

    (a) Extension of Authority.--Subsection (a) of section 347 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'' and inserting ``Until September 30, 2023''.
    (b) Specified Land Management Goal of Projects.--Subsection (b) of 
such section is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs 
        (7) and (8), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(6) restoration work, fire fuels reduction, and clearing 
        overgrowth on snowpack watersheds;''.
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