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119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7195 
To provide financial assistance to forest product harvesting and hauling 
businesses impacted by a significant market disruption, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 22, 2026 
Mr. ALLEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To provide financial assistance to forest product harvesting 
and hauling businesses impacted by a significant market 
disruption, 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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Timber Harvesters, 
Haulers, and Landowners Market Disruptions Relief 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FOREST HARVESTING 
AND HAULING BUSINESSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary declares a market 
disruption under subsection (b), from amounts appro-
priated in subsection (f), the Secretary shall provide finan-
cial assistance payments to eligible entities in accordance 
with subsection (c). 
(b) PROCESS FOR DECLARATION OF A MARKET DIS-
RUPTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Governor of a State or 
the Chief of the Forest Service may petition the Sec-
retary to declare a market disruption under para-
graph (2). 
(2) DECLARATION
OF
A
MARKET
DISRUP-
TION.—Not later than 14 days after receiving a peti-
tion under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— 
(A) declare a market disruption; or 
(B) if the Secretary determines such mar-
ket disruption relating to the petition does not 
exist, notify the petitioner with an explanation 
for such determination. 
(c) PAYMENTS TO ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.— 
(1) SOLICITATION.—Not later than 30 days 
after declaring a market disruption, the Secretary 
shall publish on the website of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture or in the Federal Register 
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a notice of funding availability under this section re-
lating to such market disruption. 
(2) APPLICATIONS.— 
(A) APPLICATION DATE.—Not later than 
30 days after the publication of a notice of 
funding availability under paragraph (1), an eli-
gible entity may apply for financial assistance 
by submitting the application described in sub-
section (d)(3) to the Secretary. 
(B) REVIEW.—Not later than 30 days 
after receiving an application under subpara-
graph (A), the Secretary shall approve the ap-
plication, deny the application, or request addi-
tional information from the applicant. 
(3) PAYMENTS.— 
(A) INITIAL PAYMENT.—Not later than 14 
days after approving an application under para-
graph (2), from amounts appropriated in sub-
section (f), the Secretary shall provide a pay-
ment, to be determined by the Secretary, of not 
more than $20,000 to the applicant. 
(B) SECOND PAYMENT.—On September 30 
following the date of the payment made under 
subparagraph (A), the Secretary may provide to 
an applicant that received funds under subpara-
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graph (A) a payment of the difference be-
tween— 
(i) the payment made to the applicant 
under subparagraph (A); and 
(ii) 30 percent of— 
(I) the estimated gross revenue 
of the eligible entity for the calendar 
year of such market disruption; minus 
(II) the gross revenue of the eli-
gible entity for the preceding calendar 
year. 
(C) SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS.— 
(i) REQUEST FOR CONTINUING PAY-
MENT.—In each of the 5 years following 
the declaration of a market disruption, the 
Governor of a State or the Chief of the 
Forest Service that petitioned for the dec-
laration of such market disruption under 
subsection (b)(1) may request the Sec-
retary to continue providing payments 
under this section. 
(ii) DETERMINATION.—Upon receiv-
ing a request described in clause (i), the 
Secretary shall— 
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(I) determine whether the market 
conditions described in the applicable 
petition under subsection (b)(1) have 
improved; and 
(II) if such market conditions 
have not improved, pay an eligible en-
tity an amount equal to 50 percent of 
the sum of payments under subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) previously made 
to such eligible entity. 
(4) PRORATION.—To the extent that amounts 
appropriated under subsection (f) to carry out sub-
paragraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (3) are insuf-
ficient, the Secretary shall prorate amounts provided 
under such subparagraphs. 
(5) ALLOWABLE USES.—An eligible entity that 
receives a payment under this section may only use 
the funds from such payment for— 
(A) an operational expense (which may in-
clude payroll, fuel, equipment repairs, and debt 
service related to forest product harvesting or 
hauling); or 
(B) expanding access to another market 
opportunity in the forest product sector. 
(d) PROCEDURES.— 
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(1) APPEALS.— 
(A) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 30 days 
after the Secretary denies an application for 
payment under subsection (c)(2)(B), an appli-
cant may submit an appeal to the National Ap-
peals Division of the Department of Agri-
culture. 
(B) DECISION.—Not later than 30 days 
after receiving an appeal under subparagraph 
(A), the National Appeals Division of the De-
partment of Agriculture shall issue a decision 
on such appeal. 
(2) FALSE
CLAIMS.—An entity that submits 
fraudulent information in any application under this 
section— 
(A) may not receive any funds under this 
section; and 
(B) shall be subject to fines, as determined 
to be appropriate by the Secretary. 
(3) DEVELOPMENT
OF
APPLICATION.—Not 
later than 60 days after the date of the enactment 
of this section, the Secretary shall— 
(A) establish an application for purposes of 
applying for payments under this section; and 
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(B) develop such application without re-
gard to— 
(i) the notice and comment provisions 
of section 553 of title 5, United States 
Code; and 
(ii) chapter 35 of title 44, United 
States Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Pa-
perwork Reduction Act’’). 
(e) REPORT.—For each year in which the Secretary 
makes a payment under this section, the Secretary shall 
submit a report to Congress that summarizes each pay-
ment made and each activity carried out under this section 
during such year. 
(f) APPROPRIATION.—There is appropriated to carry 
out this section for each fiscal year an amount equal to 
the total amount collected in anti-dumping and counter-
vailing duties on articles the Secretary determines are 
softwood lumber articles imported into the United States 
from Canada during that fiscal year. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means a forest 
product harvesting business (including a landowner 
that profits from timber grown on such land) or a 
forest product hauling business, that— 
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(A) has suffered revenue loss related to a 
market disruption; 
(B) has, in the calendar year preceding 
such 
market 
disruption, 
earned 
at 
least 
$35,000 in Federal taxable income by selling, 
harvesting, or hauling an unrefined forest prod-
uct; 
(C) derives not less than 75 percent of its 
gross revenue from— 
(i) forest product harvesting; or 
(ii) forest product hauling activity; 
and 
(D) in the case of a landowner that profits 
from timber grown on such land, has in at least 
4 of the 5 previous calendar years sold not less 
than— 
(i) 1,000,000 board feet of sawtimber; 
(ii) 2,000 cords of pulpwood; or 
(iii) 5,000 green tons of any form of 
timber. 
(2) The term ‘‘gross revenue’’ means the gross 
revenue generated by an eligible entity from forest 
product harvesting or forest product hauling service, 
within the normal range of operation of an eligible 
entity, as determined by the Secretary. 
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(3) The term ‘‘region’’ means a— 
(A) State; or 
(B) one of two portions of a State, as de-
lineated by the Governor of that State or the 
Chief of the Forest Service. 
(4) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of 
the Farm Services Agency. 
(5) The term ‘‘market disruption’’ means— 
(A) the closure or idling, during the 5 
years preceding the date of the petition under 
subsection (b), of one or more processing facil-
ity for a particular forest product, including a 
pulp mill that process pine pulpwood, that rep-
resents a loss of at least 20 percent processing 
capacity for that forest product within a region; 
(B) a trade barrier imposed by a foreign 
entity that results in a national reduction of at 
least 50 percent in export receipts for a par-
ticular forest product, including hardwood lum-
ber and Douglas-fir sawlogs, as compared to 
the export receipts from the year preceding the 
date of the petition under subsection (b); 
(C) a decrease, during the 2 years pre-
ceding the date of the petition under subsection 
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(b), of at least 50 percent of the average 
stumpage price or delivered price of a particular 
forest product in a region; 
(D) at least 20 percent of a region by area 
has, during the 10 years preceding the date of 
the petition under subsection (b), lost access to 
previously existing markets for a particular for-
est product; or 
(E) an event that poses a significant threat 
to the viability of timber harvesting and hauling 
operations in the United States. 
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