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House Bill 7273
116th Congress(2019-2020)
To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.
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H. R. 7273 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 7273


To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 18, 2020

Ms. Schrier (for herself and Mr. Kilmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.

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

SECTION 1. Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.

Public Law 88–657 (16 U.S.C. 532 et seq.) (commonly known as the “Forest Roads and Trails Act”) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“SEC. 8. Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.

“(a) Establishment.—There is established the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program (referred to in this section as ‘the Program’).

“(b) Administration.—The Program shall be administered by the Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to in this section as the ‘Secretary’).

“(c) National strategy.—The Secretary shall develop a national strategy to carry out the Program, in accordance with this section.

“(d) Activities.—In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall—

“(1) carry out critical deferred maintenance, urgent repairs, road and trail relocation, and associated activities on National Forest System roads, trails, and bridges;

“(2) restore passages of fish and other aquatic species by removing or replacing unnatural barriers from such passages; and

“(3) decommission roads and trails in accordance with subsection (h).

“(e) Priority.—In implementing the Program, the Secretary shall give priority to projects that protect or restore—

“(1) water quality and watershed function;

“(2) a watershed that supplies a public drinking water system;

“(3) the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or sensitive fish or wildlife species, or species of conservation concern; or

“(4) a watershed for which the Secretary has completed a watershed protection and restoration action plan pursuant to section 304 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 6543).

“(f) National forest system.—Except with respect to a project carried out on a watershed for which the Secretary has a cooperative agreement under section 323 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 1011a), each project carried out under this section shall be on a National Forest System road or trail.

“(g) Identification of minimum road systems.—Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall identify, for each unit of the National Forest System, the minimum road system and unneeded roads in accordance with section 212.5(b) of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act).

“(h) Unneeded roads.—The Secretary shall decommission any roads identified as unneeded under subsection (g) as soon as practicable after making the identification under that subsection.

“(i) Review; revision.—The Secretary shall review, and may revise, an identification made under subsection (g) for a unit of the National Forest System during a revision of the land and resource management plan applicable to that unit.

“(j) Authorization of appropriations.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2030.”.