S.Amdt. 1642

SA 1642. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 6, to reduce our Nation's dependency on foreign oil by investing in clean, renewable, and alternative energy resources, promoting new emerging energy technologies, developing greater efficiency, and creating a Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve to invest in alternative energy, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In section 102(4), strike subparagraph (A) and insert the following:

(A) nonmerchantable materials or precommercial thinnings that--

(i) are byproducts of preventive treatments, such as trees, wood, brush, thinnings, chips, and slash, that are removed--

(I) to reduce hazardous fuels;

(II) to reduce or contain disease or insect infestation; or

(III) to restore forest health;

(ii) would not otherwise be used for higher-value products; and

(iii) are harvested from National Forest System land or public land (as defined in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702))--

(I) where permitted by law; and

(II) in accordance with--

(aa) applicable land management plans; and

(bb) the requirements for old-growth maintenance and restoration and large-tree retention of subsections (e)(2) and (f) of section 102 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6512); or