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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1162 
To make supplemental appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture, 
the Interior, Homeland Security, Labor, and Commerce for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 18, 2021 
Mr. NEGUSE (for himself, Mr. KILMER, Mr. LOWENTHAL, and Mr. HUFFMAN) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ap-
propriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To make supplemental appropriations for the Departments 
of Agriculture, the Interior, Homeland Security, Labor, 
and Commerce for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2021, 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 ‘‘21st Century Con-
servation Corps Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DE-
PARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, THE INTE-
RIOR, HOMELAND SECURITY, LABOR, AND 
COMMERCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The following amounts are appro-
priated, out of any amounts in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2021, and for other purposes: 
(1) FOREST SERVICE SUPPLEMENTAL APPRO-
PRIATIONS.—For additional amounts for the Forest 
Service— 
(A) $8,075,000,000 for ‘‘National Forest 
System’’, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2023, of which— 
(i) $3,500,000,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2023, shall be 
used for hazardous fuels management ac-
tivities, subject to the conditions that the 
Secretary of Agriculture, acting through 
the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to 
in this paragraph as the ‘‘Secretary’’)— 
(I) shall prioritize hazardous 
fuels reduction projects using those 
amounts for projects— 
(aa) for which any applica-
ble processes under the National 
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Environmental 
Policy 
Act 
of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
have been completed or are in the 
process of being completed; 
(bb) that are noncommer-
cial; 
(cc) that focus on small di-
ameter trees, thinning, strategic 
fuel breaks, and fire use to mod-
ify fire behavior, as measured by 
the 
projected 
reduction 
of 
uncharacteristically severe wild-
fire effects for the forest type, 
such as adverse soil impacts, tree 
mortality, or other impacts; 
(dd) that maximize the re-
tention of large trees, as appro-
priate for the forest type, to the 
extent that the trees promote 
fire-resilient stands; 
(ee) that do not include the 
establishment 
of 
permanent 
roads; and 
(ff) for which funding would 
be committed to decommission all 
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temporary roads constructed to 
carry out the project; 
(II) shall not harvest vegeta-
tion— 
(aa) from any old growth 
stand, unless the old growth 
stand is part of a science-based 
ecological restoration project au-
thorized by the Secretary that 
meets applicable protection and 
old growth enhancement objec-
tives, as determined by the Sec-
retary; or 
(bb) within any inventoried 
roadless area; and 
(III) shall complete and submit 
to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of 
the House of Representatives an an-
nual report describing the number of 
acres of land on which projects car-
ried out using those amounts effec-
tively mitigated wildfire risk; 
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(ii) $150,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2023, shall be de-
posited in the Collaborative Forest Land-
scape Restoration Fund for ecological res-
toration treatments, as authorized by sec-
tion 4003(f) of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 
7303(f)): Provided, That the Secretary 
may expend such funds on any proposal 
that has received or been approved for 
funding through the Collaborative Forest 
Landscape Restoration Fund and will be 
implemented through the collaborative 
process described in section 4003(b)(2) of 
that Act (16 U.S.C. 7303(b)(2)); 
(iii) $300,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2023, shall be used 
to implement watershed protection and res-
toration action plans developed as part of 
the Watershed Condition Framework es-
tablished under section 304 of the Healthy 
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 
U.S.C. 6543); 
(iv) $25,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2021, for ‘‘Recre-
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