TITLE IV—GENERAL 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. REGULATIONS. 
Except as provided in section 106(b), the Secretary 
concerned is not required to promulgate regulations to im-
plement this Act. 
SEC. 402. DEDICATED SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH 
AND MONITORING. 
(a) SPECIAL ACCOUNT.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall establish a special account in the Treasury for 
each Secretary concerned. 
(b) DEPOSITS.—Ten percent of the gross proceeds 
derived by the Secretary concerned from catastrophic 
event recovery projects and catastrophic event research 
projects conducted by the Secretary concerned under title 
I shall— 
(1) be deposited in the special account estab-
lished for that Secretary; and 
(2) remain available, without further appropria-
tion and until expended, for expenditure as provided 
in subsection (c). 
(c) RESEARCH-RELATED
USE
OF
SPECIAL
AC-
COUNTS.—The Secretary concerned shall use amounts in 
the special account established for that Secretary— 
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(1) to develop research protocols under section 
101; 
(2) to prepare and implement catastrophic 
event research projects; and 
(3) to provide for monitoring under sections 
104 and 105. 
(d) RELATION TO OTHER FUNDS.—Amounts in the 
special account established for the Secretary concerned are 
in addition to other amounts available to that Secretary 
for the purposes described in subsection (c). 
SEC. 403. OTHER FUNDING SOURCES. 
(a) 
AVAILABILITY
OF
KNUTSON-VANDENBERG 
FUNDS.—Section 3 of the Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly 
known as the Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b), 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Such deposits shall be covered’’ 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(b) Amounts deposited under subsection (a) shall be 
covered’’; 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘national park.’’ the fol-
lowing new sentence: ‘‘The Secretary of Agriculture 
may also use excess amounts to cover the costs of 
activities of the Secretary under title I of the Forest 
Emergency Recovery and Research Act.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
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(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (3); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) the excess amounts will not be needed for 
activities of the Secretary under title I of the Forest 
Emergency Recovery and Research Act during the 
fiscal year in which the transfer would be made; 
and’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF FOREST SERVICE SALVAGE 
SALE FUNDS.—Section 14(h) of the National Forest 
Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a(h)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in the fourth sentence, by inserting after 
‘‘the purposes for which deposited’’ the following: 
‘‘and to cover the costs of activities of the Secretary 
under title I of the Forest Emergency Recovery and 
Research Act’’; and 
(2) in last proviso, by striking ‘‘for which de-
posited on any national forest’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
which deposits of money are available under this 
subsection’’. 
(c) AVAILABILITY OF BLM REVOLVING FUND DE-
RIVED FROM DISPOSAL OF SALVAGE TIMBER.—The first 
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paragraph under the headings ‘‘FOREST ECOSYSTEMS 
HEALTH AND RECOVERY’’ and ‘‘REVOLVING FUND, SPE-
CIAL ACCOUNT’’ in title I of the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public 
Law 102–381; 106 Stat. 1376; 43 U.S.C. 1736a), is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
‘‘The money in this fund shall likewise be immediately 
available to cover the costs of activities of the Bureau of 
Land Management under title I of the Forest Emergency 
Recovery and Research Act.’’. 
SEC. 404. EFFECT OF DECLARATION OF MAJOR DISASTER 
OR EMERGENCY. 
If an area of non-Federal land damaged by a cata-
strophic event is also covered by a declaration by the 
President under section 401 or 501 of the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170, 5191) that a major disaster or emergency 
exists, the Director of Federal Emergency Management 
Agency may use funds available for activities under that 
Act to reimburse the Secretary concerned for assistance 
in that area provided under— 
(1) subtitle B of title II; or 
(2) subsection (c) of section 10A of the Cooper-
ative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
2106c), as added by section 201. 
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Union Calendar No. 252 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4200 
[Report No. 109–451, Part I] 
A BILL 
To improve the ability of the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior to 
promptly implement recovery treatments in re-
sponse to catastrophic events affecting Federal 
lands under their jurisdiction, including the re-
moval of dead and damaged trees and the imple-
mentation of reforestation treatments, to support 
the recovery of non-Federal lands damaged by 
catastrophic events, to revitalize Forest Service 
experimental forests, and for other purposes. 
MAY 4, 2006 
Reported from the Committee on Resources with an 
amendment 
MAY 4, 2006 
Committees on Agriculture and Transportation and In-
frastructure discharged; committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union and or-
dered to be printed 
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