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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5411 

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 

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, 

3 SECTION 1. PURPOSE. 

4 The purpose of this Act is to establish a demonstra5 tion program to facilitate landscape restoration programs 

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1 lished by statute to preserve and interpret resources asso2 ciated with American military history. 

3 SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 

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

5 (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), act6 ing through the Director of the National Park Service, 

7 shall carry out a demonstration program that provides 

8 that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for ex9 penditure within units of the National Park System from 

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

11 for the restoration or protection of park resources or val12 ues. 

13 (b) PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary shall permit 

14 each of the 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield 

15 Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield 

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

17 Act to participate in the demonstration program author18 ized by subsection (a) if the unit has in place, before the 

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

20 plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources manage21 ment plan approved pursuant to the National Environ22 mental Policy Act of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), that 

23 identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cul24 tural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduc25 tion. 


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1 (c) USE OF RECEIPTS.—Each unit selected to partici2 pate in the demonstration program authorized under sub3 section (a) shall retain receipts from the sale or disposal 

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

5 available for expenditure without further appropriation or 

6 fiscal year limitation for the following purposes only: 

7 (1) Landscape restoration within the unit. 

8 (2) Interpretive services within the unit. 

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

10 species within the unit. 

11 (4) Fuel load reduction within the unit. 

12 SEC. 3. REPORTS. 

13 (a) TIMELINE.—Six months after the date of the en14 actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report 

15 to the House Resources Committee and the Senate Com16 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains a 

17 specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units 

18 authorized to participate in the demonstration program 

19 under this Act. The timeline shall list— 

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

21 immediately; 

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

23 timber within 6 months; 

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

25 months to remove the timber and an explanation 


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1 why that removal will take longer than 6 months; 

2 and 

3 (4) those units where further timber removal is 

4 inappropriate and an explanation of why it is inap5 propriate. 

6 (b) RESULTS.—Two years after the date of enact7 ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 

8 the House Resources Committee and the Senate Com9 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains the 

10 results of the demonstration program authorized under 

11 this Act, including— 

12 (1) a detailed accounting of the receipts gen13 erated in each unit by the demonstration program; 

14 (2) the expenditure by each unit of those re15 ceipts; and 

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

17 negative, on each participating unit. 

18 SEC. 4. SUNSET. 

19 The authority granted to the Secretary in section 2 

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

21 this Act. 

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