[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 148 (Wednesday, November 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: November 30, 1994]
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           THE COOPERATIVE WORK TRUST FUND AMENDMENTS OF 1994

  The text of the bill (S. 2560) to allow the collection and payment of 
funds following the completion of cooperative work involving the 
protection, management, and improvement of the National Forest System, 
and for other purposes, as passed by the Senate on October 8, 1994, is 
as follows:
    
    

                                S. 2560

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. COOPERATIVE WORK FOR PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT, AND 
                   IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM.

       The penultimate paragraph of the matter under the heading 
     ``FOREST SERVICE.'' of the first section of the Act of June 
     30, 1914 (38 Stat. 430, chapter 131; 16 U.S.C. 498), is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``, management,'' after ``the 
     protection'';
       (2) by striking ``national forests,'' and inserting 
     ``National Forest System,'';
       (3) by inserting ``management,'' after ``protection,'' both 
     places it appears; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new sentences: 
     ``Payment for work undertaken pursuant to this paragraph may 
     be made from any appropriation of the Forest Service that is 
     available for similar work if a written agreement so provides 
     and reimbursement will be provided by a cooperator in the 
     same fiscal year as the expenditure by the Forest Service. A 
     reimbursement received from a cooperator that covers the 
     proportionate share of the cooperator of the cost of the work 
     shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of the 
     Forest Service from which the payment was initially made or, 
     if the appropriation is no longer available, to the credit of 
     an appropriation of the Forest Service that is available for 
     similar work. The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish 
     written rules that establish criteria to be used to determine 
     whether the acceptance of contributions of money under this 
     paragraph would adversely affect the ability of an officer or 
     employee of the United States Department of Agriculture to 
     carry out a duty or program of the officer or employee in a 
     fair and objective manner or would compromise, or appear to 
     compromise, the integrity of the program, officer, or 
     employee. The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish 
     written rules that protect the interests of the Forest 
     Service in cooperative work agreements.''.

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