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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief and the Director 
may require performance and payment bonds under 
sections 28.103–2 and 28.103–3 of the Federal Ac-
quisition Regulation, in an amount that the con-
tracting officer considers sufficient to protect the in-
vestment in receipts by the Federal Government 
generated by the contractor from the estimated 
value of the forest products to be removed under a 
contract under subsection (b). 
‘‘(2) EXCESS
OFFSET
VALUE.—If the offset 
value of the forest products exceeds the value of the 
resource improvement treatments, the Chief and the 
Director may— 
‘‘(A) collect any residual receipts under the 
Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the 
‘Knutson-Vanderberg Act’) (16 U.S.C. 576 et 
seq.); and 
‘‘(B) apply the excess to other authorized 
stewardship projects. 
‘‘(h) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief and the Director 
shall establish a multiparty monitoring and evalua-
tion process that accesses the stewardship con-
tracting projects conducted under this section. 
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‘‘(2) PARTICIPANTS.—Other than the Chief and 
Director, participants in the process described in 
paragraph (1) may include— 
‘‘(A) any cooperating governmental agen-
cies, including tribal governments; and 
‘‘(B) any other interested groups or indi-
viduals. 
‘‘(i) REPORTING.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, 
the Chief and the Director shall report to the Committee 
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and 
the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representa-
tives on— 
‘‘(1) the status of development, execution, and 
administration of agreements or contracts under 
subsection (b); 
‘‘(2) the specific accomplishments that have re-
sulted; and 
‘‘(3) the role of local communities in the devel-
opment of agreements or contract plans.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 347 of the 
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 2104 note; Public Law 
105–277) is repealed. 
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SEC. 8205. HEALTHY FORESTS RESERVE PROGRAM. 
(a) DEFINITION OF ACREAGE OWNED BY INDIAN 
TRIBES.—Section 502(e)(3) of the Healthy Forests Res-
toration Act (16 U.S.C. 6572(e)(3)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘subpara-
graphs (A) and (B)’’ and inserting ‘‘clauses (i) and 
(ii)’’; 
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through 
(C) as clauses (i) through (iii), respectively, and in-
denting appropriately; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘In the case of’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION OF ACREAGE OWNED BY 
INDIAN TRIBES.—In this paragraph, the term 
‘acreage owned by Indian tribes’ includes— 
‘‘(i) land that is held in trust by the 
United States for Indian tribes or indi-
vidual Indians; 
‘‘(ii) land, the title to which is held by 
Indian tribes or individual Indians subject 
to Federal restrictions against alienation 
or encumbrance; 
‘‘(iii) land that is subject to rights of 
use, occupancy, and benefit of certain In-
dian tribes; 
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‘‘(iv) land that is held in fee title by 
an Indian tribe; 
‘‘(v) land that is owned by a native 
corporation formed under section 17 of the 
Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as 
the ‘Indian Reorganization Act’) (25 
U.S.C. 477) or section 8 of the Alaska Na-
tive Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
1607); or 
‘‘(vi) a combination of 1 or more 
types of land described in clauses (i) 
through (v). 
‘‘(B) ENROLLMENT OF ACREAGE.—In the 
case of’’. 
(b) CHANGE IN FUNDING SOURCE FOR HEALTHY 
FORESTS
RESERVE
PROGRAM.—Section 508 of the 
Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 
6578) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘IN GEN-
ERAL’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘FISCAL
YEARS
2009 
THROUGH 2013’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (d); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
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