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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 re-
sources 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 dem-
onstration program to facilitate landscape restoration 
programs within certain units of the National Park Sys-
tem established by law to preserve and interpret re-
sources associated with American history, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to establish a demonstra-
tion program to facilitate landscape restoration programs 
within those units of the National Park System estab-
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lished by statute to preserve and interpret resources asso-
ciated with American military history. 
SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of the Interior 
(hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), act-
ing through the Director of the National Park Service, 
shall carry out a demonstration program that provides 
that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for ex-
penditure within units of the National Park System from 
which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan 
for the restoration or protection of park resources or val-
ues. 
(b) PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary shall permit 
each of the 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield 
Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield 
Sites in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act to participate in the demonstration program author-
ized by subsection (a) if the unit has in place, before the 
date of the enactment of this Act, a general management 
plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources manage-
ment plan approved pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), that 
identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cul-
tural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduc-
tion. 
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(c) USE OF RECEIPTS.—Each unit selected to partici-
pate in the demonstration program authorized under sub-
section (a) shall retain receipts from the sale or disposal 
of timber removed from that unit. Such receipts shall be 
available for expenditure without further appropriation or 
fiscal year limitation for the following purposes only: 
(1) Landscape restoration within the unit. 
(2) Interpretive services within the unit. 
(3) Eradication of disease, insects, or invasive 
species within the unit. 
(4) Fuel load reduction within the unit. 
SEC. 3. REPORTS. 
(a) TIMELINE.—Six months after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report 
to the House Resources Committee and the Senate Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains a 
specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units 
authorized to participate in the demonstration program 
under this Act. The timeline shall list— 
(1) those units that are ready to remove timber 
immediately; 
(2) those units that will be able to remove the 
timber within 6 months; 
(3) those units that will take longer than 6 
months to remove the timber and an explanation 
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why that removal will take longer than 6 months; 
and 
(4) those units where further timber removal is 
inappropriate and an explanation of why it is inap-
propriate. 
(b) RESULTS.—Two years after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 
the House Resources Committee and the Senate Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources that contains the 
results of the demonstration program authorized under 
this Act, including— 
(1) a detailed accounting of the receipts gen-
erated in each unit by the demonstration program; 
(2) the expenditure by each unit of those re-
ceipts; and 
(3) any resource or other impacts, positive or 
negative, on each participating unit. 
SEC. 4. SUNSET. 
The authority granted to the Secretary in section 2 
shall expire 4 years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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