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Union Calendar No. 337 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5411 

[Report No. 109–586] 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 17, 2006 

Mr. PEARCE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Resources 

JULY 20, 2006 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 

and ordered to be printed 

A BILL 

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. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. PURPOSE. 

2 The purpose of this Act is to establish a demonstra3 tion program to facilitate landscape restoration programs 

4 within those units of the National Park System estab5 lished by statute to preserve and interpret resources asso6 ciated with American military history. 

7 SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 

8 (a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of the Interior 

9 (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), act10 ing through the Director of the National Park Service, 

11 shall carry out a demonstration program that provides 

12 that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for ex13 penditure within units of the National Park System from 

14 which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan 

15 for the restoration or protection of park resources or val16 ues. 

17 (b) PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary shall permit 

18 each of the 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield 

19 Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield 

20 Sites in existence on the date of the enactment of this 

21 Act to participate in the demonstration program author22 ized by subsection (a) if the unit has in place, before the 

23 date of the enactment of this Act, a general management 

24 plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources manage25 ment plan approved pursuant to the National Environ26 mental Policy Act of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), that 


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1 identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cul2 tural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduc3 tion. 

4 (c) USE OF RECEIPTS.—Each unit selected to partici5 pate in the demonstration program authorized under sub6 section (a) shall retain receipts from the sale or disposal 

7 of timber removed from that unit. Such receipts shall be 

8 available for expenditure without further appropriation or 

9 fiscal year limitation for the following purposes only: 

10 (1) Landscape restoration within the unit. 

11 (2) Interpretive services within the unit. 

12 (3) Eradication of disease, insects, or invasive 

13 species within the unit. 

14 (4) Fuel load reduction within the unit. 

15 SEC. 3. REPORTS. 

16 (a) TIMELINE.—Six months after the date of the en17 actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report 

18 to the House Resources Committee and the Senate Com19 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains a 

20 specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units 

21 authorized to participate in the demonstration program 

22 under this Act. The timeline shall list— 

23 (1) those units that are ready to remove timber 

24 immediately; 


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1 (2) those units that will be able to remove the 

2 timber within 6 months; 

3 (3) those units that will take longer than 6 

4 months to remove the timber and an explanation 

5 why that removal will take longer than 6 months; 

6 and 

7 (4) those units where further timber removal is 

8 inappropriate and an explanation of why it is inap9 propriate. 

10 (b) RESULTS.—Two years after the date of enact11 ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 

12 the House Resources Committee and the Senate Com13 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains the 

14 results of the demonstration program authorized under 

15 this Act, including— 

16 (1) a detailed accounting of the receipts gen17 erated in each unit by the demonstration program; 

18 (2) the expenditure by each unit of those re19 ceipts; and 

20 (3) any resource or other impacts, positive or 

21 negative, on each participating unit. 

22 SEC. 4. SUNSET. 

23 The authority granted to the Secretary in section 2 

24 shall expire 4 years after the date of the enactment of 

25 this Act. 


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Union Calendar No. 337 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5411 

[Report No. 109

–586] 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish 

American history, and for other purposes. serve and interpret resources associated with National Park System established by law to prerestoration programs within certain units of the a demonstration program to facilitate landscape 

JULY 20, 2006 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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