[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S159-S160]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 43. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 3, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2017 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2018 through 2026; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING 
                   FOREST HEALTH.

       (a) In General.--The Chairman of the Committee on the 
     Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a 
     committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate 
     levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint 
     resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, 
     motions, or conference reports relating to the forest health 
     improvements described in subsection (b) by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 
     that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 
     either the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through 
     2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through 
     2026.
       (b) Forest Health Improvements Described.--The forest 
     health improvements referred to in subsection (a) are any of 
     the following:
       (1) Increasing timber production from Federal land and 
     providing bridge funding to counties and other units of local 
     government until timber production levels increase.
       (2) Decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads.
       (3) Improving stewardship contracting.
       (4) Reforming the process of budgeting for wildfire 
     suppression operations.

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