‘‘SEC. 8. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROADS AND TRAILS RE-
MEDIATION PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established the 
Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Pro-
gram (referred to in this section as ‘the Program’). 
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Program shall be ad-
ministered by the Secretary, acting through the Chief of 
the Forest Service (referred to in this section as the ‘Sec-
retary’). 
‘‘(c) NATIONAL STRATEGY.—The Secretary shall de-
velop a national strategy to carry out the Program, in ac-
cordance with this section. 
‘‘(d) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the Program, the 
Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) carry out critical deferred maintenance, 
urgent repairs, road and trail relocation, and associ-
ated activities on National Forest System roads, 
trails, and bridges; 
‘‘(2) restore passages of fish and other aquatic 
species by removing or replacing unnatural barriers 
from such passages; and 
‘‘(3) decommission roads and trails in accord-
ance with subsection (h). 
‘‘(e) PRIORITY.—In implementing the Program, the 
Secretary shall give priority to projects that protect or re-
store— 
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‘‘(1) water quality and watershed function; 
‘‘(2) a watershed that supplies a public drinking 
water system; 
‘‘(3) the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or 
sensitive fish or wildlife species, or species of con-
servation concern; or 
‘‘(4) a watershed for which the Secretary has 
completed a watershed protection and restoration ac-
tion plan pursuant to section 304 of the Healthy 
Forests Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 6543). 
‘‘(f) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM.—Except with re-
spect to a project carried out on a watershed for which 
the Secretary has a cooperative agreement under section 
323 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 1011a), each 
project carried out under this section shall be on a Na-
tional Forest System road or trail. 
‘‘(g) IDENTIFICATION
OF
MINIMUM
ROAD
SYS-
TEMS.—Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment 
of this section, the Secretary shall identify, for each unit 
of the National Forest System, the minimum road system 
and unneeded roads in accordance with section 212.5(b) 
of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
the date of enactment of this Act). 
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‘‘(h) UNNEEDED ROADS.—The Secretary shall de-
commission any roads identified as unneeded under sub-
section (g) as soon as practicable after making the identi-
fication under that subsection. 
‘‘(i) REVIEW; REVISION.—The Secretary shall review, 
and may revise, an identification made under subsection 
(g) for a unit of the National Forest System during a revi-
sion of the land and resource management plan applicable 
to that unit. 
‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 
2030.’’. 
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