[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3116 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3116

   To amend Public Law 88-657 to require greater transparency in the 
consideration of projects for the Forest Service Legacy Road and Trail 
              Remediation Program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 24, 2023

 Mr. Lujan (for himself and Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend Public Law 88-657 to require greater transparency in the 
consideration of projects for the Forest Service Legacy Road and Trail 
              Remediation Program, 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 ``Transparency in Legacy Road and 
Trail Remediation Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROAD AND TRAIL REMEDIATION PROGRAM 
              TRANSPARENCY.

    Section 8 of Public Law 88-657 (16 U.S.C. 538a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(2)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(B) solicit and consider public input regionally 
                in selecting projects for funding under the Program 
                by--
                            ``(i) publishing annually, for each region, 
                        a list of projects considered for funding under 
                        the Program;
                            ``(ii) accepting public comment on the 
                        projects described in clause (i); and
                            ``(iii) considering public comments in 
                        selecting projects for funding under the 
                        Program;''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (D)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
                        inserting ``annually, for each region,'' before 
                        ``publish''; and
                            (ii) by striking clause (ii) and inserting 
                        the following:
                            ``(ii) a list that includes a description 
                        of--
                                    ``(I) each project considered for 
                                funding under the Program;
                                    ``(II) public comments received on 
                                each project described in subclause 
                                (I);
                                    ``(III) the ranking within the 
                                applicable region of each project 
                                described in subclause (I); and
                                    ``(IV) the proposed outcome of each 
                                project funded under the Program for 
                                the applicable fiscal year.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Definition of Region.--In this section, the term `region' 
means one of the 9 regions of the Forest Service.''.
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