IIB
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 309
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 18, 2007
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a demonstration program to facilitate landscape restoration programs within certain units of the National Park System established by law to preserve and interpret resources associated with American history, and for other purposes.
Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to establish a demonstration program to facilitate landscape restoration programs within those units of the National Park System established by statute to preserve and interpret resources associated with American military history.
Demonstration program authorized
Authorization
The Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act referred to as the “Secretary”), acting through the Director of the National Park Service, shall carry out a demonstration program that provides that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for expenditure within units of the National Park System from which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the restoration or protection of park resources or values.
Participation
The Secretary shall permit each of the 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield Sites in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act to participate in the demonstration program authorized by subsection (a) if the unit has in place, before the date of the enactment of this Act, a general management plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources management plan approved pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), that identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cultural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduction.
Use of Receipts
Each unit selected to participate in the demonstration program authorized under subsection (a) shall retain receipts from the sale or disposal of timber removed from that unit. Such receipts shall be available for expenditure without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation for the following purposes only:
Landscape restoration within the unit.
Interpretive services within the unit.
Eradication of disease, insects, or invasive species within the unit.
Fuel load reduction within the unit.
Report
Two years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains the results of the demonstration program authorized under this Act, including—
a detailed accounting of the receipts generated in each unit by the demonstration program;
the expenditure by each unit of those receipts; and
any resource or other impacts, positive or negative, on each participating unit.
Sunset
The authority granted to the Secretary in section 2 shall expire 4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives April 17, 2007.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.