```

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5015 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>

118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5015

  To amend the Infastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the 
   Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest 
 Service, to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements to carry out 
   certain ecosystem restoration activities, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2023

 Ms. Leger Fernandez 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 amend the Infastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the 
   Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest 
 Service, to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements to carry out 
   certain ecosystem restoration activities, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat 
Restoration Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS TO CARRY OUT CERTAIN 
              ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Contracts, Grants, and Agreements.--Section 40804 of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (16 U.S.C. 6592a) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Contracts, Grants, and Agreements.--To carry out the 
ecosystem restoration activities described in subsection (b), the 
Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest 
Service, may enter into contracts, grants, or agreements with State 
forestry agencies, local private or nonprofit entities, institutions of 
higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))), and multistate coalitions--
            ``(1) for the collection and maintenance of native seeds, 
        including material from managed seed orchards; and
            ``(2) for the production of seedlings for revegetation.''.
    (b) Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.--Section 
4003(b)(7) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 
7303(b)(7)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting 
        ``the collection and maintenance of native seeds for 
        revegetation, the production of seedlings, and'' after ``or 
        agreements for'';
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (D) as 
        subparagraphs (C) through (E), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
                    ``(B) institutions of higher education (as defined 
                in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
                (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)));''.
                                 <all>
```