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Calendar No. 477

108TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 1910

[Report No. 108–254] 

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and 

management program for forests derived from public domain land. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 20, 2003

Mr. WYDEN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 

APRIL 26, 2004

Reported by Mr. DOMENICI, without amendment 

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and management program for forests derived from 

public domain land.

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 INVENTORY AND MANAGEMENT. 

4 Section 17 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance 

5 Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101 note; Public Law 95–313) 

6 is amended to read as follows: 
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1 ‘‘SEC. 17. FOREST INVENTORY AND MANAGEMENT. 

2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry out a 

3 program using geospatial and information management 

4 technologies (including remote sensing imaging and deci5 sion support systems) to inventory, monitor, characterize, 

6 assess, and identify forest stands and potential forest 

7 stands on—

8 ‘‘(1) units of the National Forest System de9 rived from public domain land; and 

10 ‘‘(2) private forest land, with the consent of the 

11 owner of the land. 

12 ‘‘(b) MEANS.—The Secretary shall carry out the pro13 gram through the use of—

14 ‘‘(1) remote sensing technology of the National 

15 Aeronautics and Space Administration and the 

16 United States Geological Survey; 

17 ‘‘(2) emerging geospatial capabilities in re18 search activities; 

19 ‘‘(3) validating techniques, including coordina20 tion and reconciliation with existing data through 

21 field verification, using application demonstrations; 

22 and 

23 ‘‘(4) integration of results into pilot operational 

24 systems. 
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1 ‘‘(c) ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED.—In carrying out 

2 the program, the Secretary shall address issues includ3 ing—

4 ‘‘(1) early detection, identification, and assess5 ment of environmental threats (including insect, dis6 ease, invasive species, fire, acid deposition, and 

7 weather-related risks and other episodic events); 

8 ‘‘(2) loss or degradation of forests; 

9 ‘‘(3) degradation of the quality forest stands 

10 caused by inadequate forest regeneration practices; 

11 ‘‘(4) quantification of carbon uptake rates; 

12 ‘‘(5) management practices that focus on pre13 venting further forest degradation; and 

14 ‘‘(6) characterization of vegetation types, den15 sity, fire regimes, post-fire effects, and condition 

16 class. 

17 ‘‘(d) EARLY WARNING SYSTEM.—In carrying out the 

18 program, the Secretary shall develop a comprehensive 

19 early warning system for potential catastrophic environ20 mental threats to forests to increase the likelihood that 

21 forest managers will be able to—

22 ‘‘(1) isolate and treat a threat before the threat 

23 gets out of control; and 

24 ‘‘(2) prevent epidemics, such as the American 

25 chestnut blight in the first half of the twentieth cen-
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1 tury, that could be environmentally and economically 

2 devastating to forests. 

3 ‘‘(e) ADMINISTRATION.—To carry out this section, 

4 the Secretary shall designate and maintain a facility in 

5 the Ochoco National Forest headquarters in Prineville, 

6 Oregon, that will address the issues described in sub7 section (c), with a particular emphasis on coniferous forest 

8 stands in the Western United States. 

9 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

10 are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec11 essary to carry out this section.’’. 

Calendar No. 477

108TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 1910

[Report No. 108–254] 

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out 

an inventory and management program for forests derived from public domain land. 

APRIL 26, 2004

Reported without amendment