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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3685 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 372
112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3685

                      [Report No. 112-524, Part I]

To amend the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act 
 to extend and expand the scope of the pilot forest management project 
                         required by that Act.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 15, 2011

Mr. Herger (for himself, Mr. McClintock, and Mr. Amodei) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
   Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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

                             June 15, 2012

   Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

                             June 15, 2012

The Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of 
  the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           December 15, 2011]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
To amend the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act 
 to extend and expand the scope of the pilot forest management project 
                         required by that Act.

 

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

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF HERGER-FEINSTEIN QUINCY LIBRARY GROUP 
              FOREST RECOVERY ACT.

    (a) Extension.--Subsection (g) of the Herger-Feinstein Quincy 
Library Group Forest Recovery Act (title IV of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained in 
section 101(e) of division A of Public Law 105-277; 16 U.S.C. 2104 
note) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(g) Term of Pilot Project.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall conduct the pilot 
        project until the earlier of the following:
                    ``(A) September 30, 2022.
                    ``(B) The date on which the Secretary completes 
                amendment or revision of the land and resource 
                management plans for the National Forest System lands 
                included in the pilot project area.
            ``(2) Forest plan amendments.--When the Regional Forester 
        for Region 5 initiates the process to amend or revise the land 
        and resource management plans for the pilot project area, the 
        process shall include preparation of at least one alternative 
        that incorporates the pilot project and area designations under 
        subsection (b), the resource management activities described in 
        subsection (d), and other aspects of the Quincy Library Group 
        Community Stability Proposal.''.
    (b) Expansion of Pilot Project Area.--Subsection (b) of the Herger-
Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Expansion of pilot project area.--The Secretary may 
        expand the pilot project area to include all National Forest 
        System lands within California or Nevada that lie within the 
        Sierra Nevada and Cascade Province, Lake Tahoe Basin Management 
        Unit, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, and Inyo National 
        Forest. These lands may be managed using the same strategy, 
        guidelines and resource management activities outlined in this 
        section or developed to meet local forest and community needs 
        and conditions.''.
    (c) Roadless Area Protection.--Subsection (c)(4) of the Herger-
Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sentence: ``However, those areas 
designated as `Deferred' on the map, but located in Tehama County, 
south and west of Lassen Peak, are deemed to be designated as 
`Available for Group Selection' and shall be managed accordingly under 
subsection (d).''.
    (d) Group Selection Requirement.--Subparagraph (A) of subsection 
(d)(2) of the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act 
is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(A) Group selection.--After September 30, 2012, 
                group selection on an average acreage of .57 percent of 
                the pilot project area land shall occur each year of 
                the pilot project.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 372

112th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3685

                      [Report No. 112-524, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To amend the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act 
 to extend and expand the scope of the pilot forest management project 
                         required by that Act.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 15, 2012

   Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment

                             June 15, 2012

The Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of 
  the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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