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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4892 
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, 
to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements to carry out certain 
ecosystem restoration activities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 5, 2025 
Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Nat-
ural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to 
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through 
the Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into contracts, 
grants, and agreements to carry out certain ecosystem 
restoration activities, 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 ‘‘Seedlings for Sustain-
able Habitat Restoration Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS TO CARRY 
OUT CERTAIN ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION AC-
TIVITIES. 
(a) CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS.—Sec-
tion 40804 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 
(16 U.S.C. 6592a) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(g) CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS.—To 
carry out the ecosystem restoration activities described in 
subsection (b), the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
through the Chief of the Forest Service, may enter into 
contracts, grants, or agreements with State forestry agen-
cies, local private or nonprofit entities, institutions of 
higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))), Indian 
Tribes, and multistate coalitions— 
‘‘(1) for the collection and maintenance of na-
tive seeds, including material from managed seed or-
chards; and 
‘‘(2) for the production of seedlings for revege-
tation.’’. 
(b) COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORA-
TION PROGRAM.—Section 4003(b)(7) of the Omnibus 
Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 
7303(b)(7)) is amended— 
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(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by inserting ‘‘the collection and maintenance of na-
tive seeds for revegetation, the production of seed-
lings, and’’ after ‘‘or agreements for’’; 
(2) 
by 
redesignating 
subparagraphs 
(B) 
through (D) as subparagraphs (C) through (E), re-
spectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(B) institutions of higher education (as 
defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)));’’. 
Æ 
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