110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 309
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a dem-
onstration program to facilitate landscape restoration 
programs within certain units of the National Park Sys-
tem established by law to preserve and interpret re-
sources associated with American history, 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. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to establish a demonstra-
tion program to facilitate landscape restoration programs 
within those units of the National Park System estab-
lished by statute to preserve and interpret resources asso-
ciated with American military history. 
SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of the Interior 
(hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), act-
ing through the Director of the National Park Service, 
shall carry out a demonstration program that provides 
that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for ex-
penditure within units of the National Park System from 
which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan 
for the restoration or protection of park resources or val-
ues. 
(b) PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary shall permit 
each of the 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield 
Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield 
Sites in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act to participate in the demonstration program author-
ized by subsection (a) if the unit has in place, before the 
date of the enactment of this Act, a general management
plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources manage-
ment plan approved pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), that 
identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cul-
tural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduc-
tion. 
(c) USE OF RECEIPTS.—Each unit selected to partici-
pate in the demonstration program authorized under sub-
section (a) shall retain receipts from the sale or disposal 
of timber removed from that unit. Such receipts shall be 
available for expenditure without further appropriation or 
fiscal year limitation for the following purposes only: 
(1) Landscape restoration within the unit. 
(2) Interpretive services within the unit. 
(3) Eradication of disease, insects, or invasive 
species within the unit. 
(4) Fuel load reduction within the unit. 
SEC. 3. REPORT. 
Two years after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall submit a report to the House Natural 
Resources Committee and the Senate Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources that contains the results of 
the demonstration program authorized under this Act, in-
cluding—
(1) a detailed accounting of the receipts gen-
erated in each unit by the demonstration program; 
(2) the expenditure by each unit of those re-
ceipts; and 
(3) any resource or other impacts, positive or 
negative, on each participating unit. 
SEC. 4. SUNSET. 
The authority granted to the Secretary in section 2 
shall expire 4 years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 17, 2007. 
Attest:
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 309
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish 
a demonstration program to facilitate landscape 
restoration programs within certain units of the 
National Park System established by law to pre-
serve and interpret resources associated with 
American history, and for other purposes.