Amendment inserts a new title IX to allow the Forest Service added flexibility in implementing a salvage logging plan on lands affected by the California Rim Fire while protecting sensitive areas and maximizing revenue to fund reforestation.

1. Rewrites title IX

   Replaces

   Removes title IX.

   Inserted: TITLE IX--RIM FIRE EMERGENCY SALVAGE ACT

   Inserted: SEC. 901. SHORT TITLE.

   Inserted: This title may be cited as the "Rim Fire Emergency Salvage Act".

   Inserted: SEC. 902. EXPEDITED FOREST SERVICE TIMBER SALVAGE AND RESTORATION PILOT PROJECTS IN RESPONSE TO THE CALIFORNIA RIM FIRE.

   Inserted: (a) Pilot Projects Required.--As part of the restoration and rehabilitation activities undertaken on the lands within the Stanislaus National Forest adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire in California, the Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a timber salvage and restoration pilot project on burned National Forest System land within the Rim Fire perimeter.

   Inserted: (b) Management Plan.--

   Inserted: (1) Use of eis proposed alternative.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct the pilot project required by subsection (a) in the manner provided in the proposed alternative contained in the draft environmental impact statement noticed in the Federal Register on December 6, 2013, for Rim Fire recovery.

   Inserted: (2) Modification.--During the course of the pilot project, the Secretary may adopt such modifications to the management plan as the Secretary considers appropriate in response to public comment and consultation with interested Federal, State, and tribal agencies.

   Inserted: (c) Legal Sufficiency.--The pilot project required by subsection (a), and activities conducted under the pilot project, are deemed to be in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), section 14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a), the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.), the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

   Inserted: (d) Administrative and Judicial Review and Action.--The pilot project required by subsection (a), and activities conducted under the pilot project, are not subject to--

   Inserted: (1) administrative review;

   Inserted: (2) judicial review by any court of the United States; or

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   Inserted: (3) a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction based on environmental impacts in a case for which a final decision has not been issued.

   Inserted: SEC. 903. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING USE OF FUNDS GENERATED FROM SALVAGE SALES CONDUCTED AFTER CATASTROPHIC WILD FIRES ON NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LAND OR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT LANDS.

   Inserted: It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System lands, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to Bureau of Land Management land, should use existing authorities available to the Secretary to retain revenues (other than revenues required to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury) generated by salvage sales conducted in response to catastrophic wild fires on such land to cover the cost of restoration projects on such land.

   Original wording

   Strike title IX and insert the following new title:

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