Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

Subjects: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:  <p><strong>Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill reauthorizes and expands the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management.</p> <p>To be eligible for support, a collaborative forest landscape restoration proposal must describe plans to prevent, remediate, or control invasions of pathogens.</p> <p>For each proposal nominated for selection by a Forest Service regional office, the office must provide a federal government staffing plan for providing support to collaboratives.</p> <p>In selecting proposals, the Department of Agriculture must give special consideration to proposals that seek to</p> <ul> <li> use innovative implementation mechanisms, including conservation finance agreements and good neighbor agreements;</li> <li>reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire or increase ecological restoration activities within areas across land ownerships and within the wildland-urban interface; and</li> <li>enhance watershed health and drinking water sources.</li> </ul> <p>The bill increases the number of proposals that may be funded during any fiscal year.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 202 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 202

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to reauthorize 
 the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 1, 2023

Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Risch, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Bennet, 
and Mr. Tester) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to reauthorize 
 the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, 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 ``Collaborative Forest Landscape 
Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PROGRAM 
              REAUTHORIZATION.

    Section 4003 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 
U.S.C. 7303) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``species;'' 
                and inserting ``species or pathogens;'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (G), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (C) in subparagraph (H), by adding ``and'' after 
                the semicolon at the end; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(I) address standardized monitoring questions and 
                indicators;'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(3)(A)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (ii), by adding ``and'' at the end; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) include a Federal Government 
                        staffing plan for providing support to 
                        collaboratives established pursuant to 
                        subsection (b)(2);'';
            (3) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
                        ``and'' at the end;
                            (ii) in subparagraph (F), by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) proposals that seek to use innovative 
                implementation mechanisms, including conservation 
                finance agreements, good neighbor agreements entered 
                into under section 8206 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 
                (16 U.S.C. 2113a), and similar implementation 
                mechanisms;
                    ``(H) proposals that seek to reduce the risk of 
                uncharacteristic wildfire or increase ecological 
                restoration activities--
                            ``(i) within areas across land ownerships, 
                        including State, Tribal, and private land; and
                            ``(ii) within the wildland-urban interface 
                        (as defined in section 101 of the Healthy 
                        Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 
                        6511)); and
                    ``(I) proposals that seek to enhance watershed 
                health and drinking water sources.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``10'' 
                        and inserting ``20''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``2'' 
                        and inserting ``4'';
            (4) in subsection (e)(3), by inserting ``conflict 
        resolution or collaborative governance,'' before ``and woody''; 
        and
            (5) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (4)(B)(ii), by striking 
                ``$4,000,000'' and inserting ``$8,000,000''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by striking ``2019 through 
                2023'' and inserting ``2023 through 2032''.
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