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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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROADS AND TRAILS 

4 REMEDIATION PROGRAM. 

5 Public Law 88–657 (16 U.S.C. 532 et seq.) (com6 monly known as the ‘‘Forest Roads and Trails Act’’) is 

7 amended by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 8. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROADS AND TRAILS RE2 MEDIATION PROGRAM. 

3 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established the 

4 Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Pro5 gram (referred to in this section as ‘the Program’). 

6 ‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Program shall be ad7 ministered by the Secretary, acting through the Chief of 

8 the Forest Service (referred to in this section as the ‘Sec9 retary’). 

10 ‘‘(c) NATIONAL STRATEGY.—The Secretary shall de11 velop a national strategy to carry out the Program, in ac12 cordance with this section. 

13 ‘‘(d) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the Program, the 

14 Secretary shall— 

15 ‘‘(1) carry out critical deferred maintenance, 

16 urgent repairs, road and trail relocation, and associ17 ated activities on National Forest System roads, 

18 trails, and bridges; 

19 ‘‘(2) restore passages of fish and other aquatic 

20 species by removing or replacing unnatural barriers 

21 from such passages; and 

22 ‘‘(3) decommission roads and trails in accord23 ance with subsection (h). 

24 ‘‘(e) PRIORITY.—In implementing the Program, the 

25 Secretary shall give priority to projects that protect or re26 store— 


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1 ‘‘(1) water quality and watershed function; 

2 ‘‘(2) a watershed that supplies a public drinking 

3 water system; 

4 ‘‘(3) the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or 

5 sensitive fish or wildlife species, or species of con6 servation concern; or 

7 ‘‘(4) a watershed for which the Secretary has 

8 completed a watershed protection and restoration ac9 tion plan pursuant to section 304 of the Healthy 

10 Forests Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 6543). 

11 ‘‘(f) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM.—Except with re12 spect to a project carried out on a watershed for which 

13 the Secretary has a cooperative agreement under section 

14 323 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agen15 cies Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 1011a), each 

16 project carried out under this section shall be on a Na17 tional Forest System road or trail. 

18 ‘‘(g) IDENTIFICATION OF MINIMUM ROAD SYS19 TEMS.—Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment 

20 of this section, the Secretary shall identify, for each unit 

21 of the National Forest System, the minimum road system 

22 and unneeded roads in accordance with section 212.5(b) 

23 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 

24 the date of enactment of this Act). 


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1 ‘‘(h) UNNEEDED ROADS.—The Secretary shall de2 commission any roads identified as unneeded under sub3 section (g) as soon as practicable after making the identi4 fication under that subsection. 

5 ‘‘(i) REVIEW; REVISION.—The Secretary shall review, 

6 and may revise, an identification made under subsection 

7 (g) for a unit of the National Forest System during a revi8 sion of the land and resource management plan applicable 

9 to that unit. 

10 ‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

11 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

12 $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 

13 2030.’’. 

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