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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3590 
To amend the Community Forest Restoration Act to expand the Collaborative 
Forest Restoration Program established under such Act to cover the 
State of Arizona in addition to the State of New Mexico, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2005 
Mr. RENZI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Community Forest Restoration Act to expand 
the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program established 
under such Act to cover the State of Arizona in addition 
to the State of New Mexico, 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 ‘‘Community Forest 
Restoration Expansion Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF COLLABORATIVE FOREST RESTORA-
TION PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 605 of the Community 
Forest Restoration Act (title VI of Public Law 106–393; 
114 Stat. 1626) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘and cooperative agree-
ments’’ after ‘‘provide cost-share grants’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘80 percent’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘in-kind contributions.’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘$360,000 with a min-
imum non-Federal match of 20 percent which 
may be in the form of cash or in-kind contribu-
tions.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by inserting ‘‘one or more of’’ after ‘‘ad-
dress’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (C); and 
(C) by striking subparagraph (D) and re-
designating subparagraph (E) and subpara-
graph (D); 
(3) by striking paragraph (8) and redesignating 
paragraphs (9) and (10) as paragraphs (8) and (9), 
respectively; and
(4) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) EXPANSION OF PROGRAM.—Effective October 1, 
2005, the Secretary shall expand the Collaborative Forest 
Restoration Program to cover Arizona in addition to New 
Mexico.’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
ADDITIONAL
ADVISORY 
PANEL.—Section 606 of such Act (114 Stat. 1627) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) USE OF SEPARATE PANELS.—The Secretary 
shall convene a separate technical advisory panel for each 
State covered by the Collaborative Forest Restoration Pro-
gram.’’. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
609 of such Act (114 Stat. 1628) is amended by striking 
‘‘$5,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$10,000,000’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Such Act is fur-
ther amended— 
(1) in section 602 (114 Stat. 1625)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘New 
Mexico’s forests’’ and inserting ‘‘forests in Ari-
zona and New Mexico’’; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘New 
Mexico’’ and inserting ‘‘Arizona and New Mex-
ico’’; 
(2) in section 603(1) (114 Stat. 1625), by 
striking ‘‘New Mexico’’ and inserting ‘‘Arizona and 
New Mexico’’; 
(3) in section 604 (114 Stat. 1626)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 
(2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and 
(B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as 
so redesignated, the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(1) the term ‘State’ means the State of Ari-
zona or New Mexico, depending on the location at 
which a project under the Collaborative Forest Res-
toration Program is conducted;’’; and 
(4) in section 606 (114 Stat. 1627)— 
(A) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘for a 
State’’ after ‘‘established’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘for a State’’ after 
‘‘The panel’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (1), by striking 
‘‘from the State of New Mexico’’. 
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