sistent with this section and shall be integrated into the 
program established by this section. 
(b) PURPOSES AND BASIC MANAGEMENT REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(1) GENERAL PURPOSES.—The purpose of this 
section is to protect and restore the natural heritage 
of the Federal public lands through the restoration 
of native biodiversity and natural ecological com-
plexes and processes. In most circumstances, natural 
processes will heal damaged areas without assist-
ance, but, in many circumstances, where extensive 
damage from logging and road-building is evident, it 
is necessary to take immediate action to stop soil 
erosion and pervasive resource damage. The primary 
emphasis of this section is to change circumstances 
that effectively act as barriers to natural restoration 
processes. This section does not envision the broad 
application of largely experimental techniques or tac-
tics for which there is no solid scientific support or 
concrete evidence of effectiveness. 
(2) GUIDING PRINCIPLE.—It is also the purpose 
of this section to provide guidance and limitations 
for the protection and restoration of native biological 
diversity. The inherent guiding principle or basic ap-
proach that managers shall use to implement the ec-
ological restoration provisions of this section is to 
‘‘do no harm’’ to ecosystems when implementing ac-
tive management projects and programs. 
(3) PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH.—Scientific un-
certainty about complex ecosystems requires a pre-
cautionary approach to active management. There-
fore, proposed projects that are intended to restore 
ecological processes must have short- and long-term 
benefits that significantly outweigh any short- or 
long-term risks. 
(4) EMPHASIS
OF
ECOLOGICAL
RESTORATION 
PROJECTS.—In most cases, ecosystems are inher-
ently resilient if left to function without interference 
from man, but in some cases action is necessary to 
stop immediate resource damage. Therefore, ecologi-
cal restoration projects shall emphasize the removal 
of barriers that prevent ecosystems from restoring 
themselves. Some examples of such barriers are 
roads, erosion, landslides, nonnative invasive species, 
fire suppression, certain types of hazardous fuels, 
dams or man-made barriers in streams, and other 
significant man-made damage and developments that 
interfere with natural ecological processes. 
(5) REQUIERD
EVALUATION.—In other cases 
ecosystems require the reintroduction of native spe-
cies that once contributed to natural ecological proc-
esses. Therefore, each ecological restoration project 
shall include an evaluation of which native species 
may be missing from the ecosystem and shall ensure 
the presence of adequate habitat and forage or prey 
for the native species, to be followed by a scheduled 
reintroduction of the native species in coordination 
with State natural heritage and wildlife agencies and 
the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. 
(c) NATURAL HERITAGE RESTORATION CORPS.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of the In-
terior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each es-
tablish a special unit (to be known as the ‘‘Natural 
Heritage Restoration Corps’’) for the purposes of— 
(A) conducting ecological restoration of na-
tive biodiversity in areas of Federal public lands 
where the integrity of natural ecosystems has 
been degraded; 
(B) assisting in the monitoring of forest 
resources, including effectiveness monitoring of 
ecological restoration projects; and 
(C) in cooperation with each agency’s law 
enforcement programs, monitoring and pro-
tecting public resources from various illegal ac-
tivities, including timber theft and poaching.
(2) USE OF PERSONNEL FROM EXISTING PRO-
GRAMS.—The Natural Heritage Restoration Corps 
may be created using personnel in existing programs 
in the agencies. 
(3) OTHER PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT.—In 
addition to the personnel selected under paragraph 
(2), the Natural Heritage Restoration Corps may 
hire other personnel, which may include private con-
tractors, and purchase or lease the necessary equip-
ment to implement the Natural Heritage Restoration 
Plans to achieve the goals and objectives as set forth 
by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of 
the Interior under this section. There shall be a hir-
ing preference for dislocated workers who have been 
terminated or laid off, or have received a notice of 
termination or lay off, as a consequence of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(4) TRAINING.—Personnel of the Natural Her-
itage Restoration Corps shall be properly trained so 
that they are able to carry out the activities specified 
in paragraph (1) consistent with this section. 
(d) NATURAL
HERITAGE
RESTORATION
PLAN-
NING.— 
(1) NATIONAL
FOREST
SYSTEM
LANDS.—For 
lands in the National Forest System, the Secretary
of Agriculture shall develop Natural Heritage Res-
toration Plans at the regional level to carry out an 
ecological restoration program in each region con-
sistent with this section and incorporating the stand-
ards, guidelines, and procedures developed in sub-
section (e). Such Plans shall be completed no later 
than 18 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act and shall be revised at least every 10 years. 
(2) BLM, NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, AND 
NATIONAL PARK LANDS.—For lands under the juris-
diction of the Bureau of Land Management, and, as 
necessary for National Wildlife Refuges and units of 
the National Park System, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior shall develop Natural Heritage Restoration 
Plans at the regional level to carry out an ecological 
restoration program in each region consistent with 
this section and incorporating the standards, guide-
lines, and procedures developed in subsection (e). 
Such Plans shall be completed no later than 18 
months after the date of enactment of this Act and 
shall be revised at least every 10 years. 
(3) MONITORING.—The Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall include in 
the Natural Heritage Restoration Plans—
(A) monitoring provisions to ensure the ef-
fectiveness 
of 
each 
ecological 
restoration 
project; and 
(B) provisions to gauge each Plan’s 
progress in achieving any restoration goals and 
objectives that are developed in accordance with 
subsection (g). 
(4) FOLLOW-UP
EVALUATIONS
AND
CORREC-
TIONS.—The Secretary of Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall provide for appropriate follow-up 
evaluations and actions to ensure the long-term suc-
cess of ecological restoration projects. The failure of 
any restoration project shall be evaluated and re-
ported to the appropriate Secretary, who shall take 
prompt action to provide new solutions to correct the 
failed restoration projects. 
(e) DEVELOPING STANDARDS, GUIDELINES, AND 
PROCEDURES FOR RESTORATION.— 
(1) RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SECRETARIES.— 
(A) The Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of 
the Interior shall develop regional standards, guide-
lines, and procedures for restoration, consistent with 
this section, as soon as practicable after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, and shall incorporate 
these regional standards, guidelines, and procedures,
as well as regional Natural Heritage Restoration 
Plans, into land management plans for each unit of 
Federal public lands in accordance with existing 
land management planning regulations, by no later 
than two years after the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
(B) The Secretaries shall report to the Con-
gress on the progress of implementing this section in 
the annual report required by section 8(c) of the 
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plan-
ning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1606(c)) and section 
311 of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1741). 
(2) COMMITTEE OF SCIENTISTS.—(A) In car-
rying out the purposes of this subsection, the Sec-
retary of the Interior, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, shall appoint a committee of 
scientists, for each of the various administrative re-
gions in the United States who are not officers or 
employees of the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land 
Management, or the timber industry, and who are 
not contractors for the timber industry. 
(B) The committee shall provide scientific and 
technical advice and counsel on the proposed stand-
ards, guidelines, and procedures of this subsection to
assure that an effective interdisciplinary approach is 
proposed and adopted for the development of Nat-
ural Heritage Restoration Plans in each region. 
(C) The committee shall terminate upon pro-
mulgation of the standards, guidelines, and proce-
dures, but the Secretary shall appoint similar com-
mittees, at least every 10 years, to consider revisions 
of regional standards, guidelines, and procedures 
based on new scientific information and the knowl-
edge gained from implementing ecological restora-
tion projects. Standards, guidelines, and procedures 
for developing Natural Heritage Restoration Plans 
or their revisions for each region shall be completed 
no later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act or the initiation of the revision 
process. The views of the committees shall be in-
cluded in the public information supplied when the 
standards and guidelines are proposed for adoption. 
(3) CLERICAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
Clerical and technical assistance, as may be nec-
essary to discharge the duties of the committee of 
scientists established under paragraph (2), shall be 
provided from the personnel of the Department of 
Agriculture or the Department of Interior, as appro-
priate.
(4) COMPENSATION.—While attending meetings 
of the committee, the members shall be entitled to 
receive compensation at a rate of $200 per diem, in-
cluding travel time, and while away from their 
homes or regular places of business they may be al-
lowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, 
United States Code, for persons in the Government 
service employed intermittently. 
(5) REGIONAL BOUNDARIES.—The Secretary of 
the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Agriculture, shall determine each region’s bound-
aries for which the standards, guidelines, and proce-
dures are to be developed under this subsection. 
(f) INTERIM NEEDS FOR RESTORATION.—During the 
interim period while regional standards, guidelines, and 
procedures, as well as regional Natural Heritage Restora-
tion Plans, are being developed and incorporated into land 
management plans, the Secretary of Agriculture and Sec-
retary of the Interior shall identify interim needs for eco-
logical restoration and shall take prompt action to begin 
this restoration work with available personnel. Interim 
needs for restoration under this section shall be limited 
to the following:
(1) Prescribed or managed fire or manual pre- 
treatments to reduce severe fire incidence and haz-
ardous fuels pursuant to subsection (j). 
(2) Stabilization of slopes and soils so as to 
prevent or reduce further erosion and land sliding. 
(3) Decommissioning and obliteration of roads. 
(4) Removal of nonnative invasive species. 
(5) Removal of manmade developments that 
interfere with natural ecological processes. 
(g) RESTORATION GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.—Within 
two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
shall develop specific restoration goals and objectives for 
each unit of Federal public lands, and shall, within the 
same time period, develop a specific schedule to accom-
plish those goals and objectives with any funds made avail-
able to the Secretaries, including those funds authorized 
to be appropriated in section 6. 
(h) PUBLIC
PARTICIPATION.—Any program or 
project provided in this section shall be carried out in com-
pliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its implementing regu-
lations, and any other public involvement processes pro-
vided by law, regulation, or agency policy.
(i) PROHIBITIONS.—Road construction or re-con-
struction shall be prohibited when conducting projects or 
programs provided by this section. This prohibition in-
cludes any projects to reduce the incidence of severe fire 
and hazardous fuels pursuant to subsection (j). 
(j) SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR REDUCING THE INCI-
DENCE OF SEVERE FIRE AND HAZARDOUS FUELS.— 
(1) PRESCRIBED OR MANAGED FIRES.—The use 
of prescribed or managed fires— 
(A) shall be the primary tool for reducing 
severe fire incidence and hazardous fuels; 
(B) shall only be prescribed in areas that 
have been scientifically identified as fire-adapt-
ed ecosystems; 
(C) shall be carried out in a manner de-
signed to maintain habitat quality for any pro-
posed, threatened, endangered, or sensitive spe-
cies, or their prey; and 
(D) shall be carried out during a time of 
year and with a frequency that is most eco-
logically appropriate, while also minimizing ad-
verse effects on air quality. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS REGARDING MANUAL PRE- 
TREATMENTS.—Manual pre-treatments to reduce se-
vere fire incidence and hazardous fuels—
(A) shall include use of prescribed or man-
aged fire, where appropriate, as the primary 
treatment of the project in accordance with 
paragraph (1); 
(B) may only be implemented in areas 
which have a moderate to high risk of severe 
fire incidence; 
(C) shall be prioritized for urban-wildland 
interface areas; 
(D) shall not reduce the overstory canopy 
component of the pre-treatment area; 
(E) shall maintain habitat quality for any 
proposed, threatened, endangered, or sensitive 
species, or their prey; 
(F) may remove hazardous fuels to mini-
mize occurrences of prescribed fires reaching 
the forest canopy; and 
(G) shall only be prescribed in areas that 
have been scientifically identified as fire-adapt-
ed ecosystems. 
(3) APPLICATION TO OTHER PROJECTS.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, any treat-
ments or manual pre-treatments to reduce severe 
fire incidence and hazardous fuels as part of any 
agency projects or programs to reduce the incidence
of severe fire and hazardous fuels on Federal public 
lands shall be performed in a manner consistent 
with this subsection, this section, and section 4. 
(k) USES OF FOREST MATERIALS THAT RESULT 
FROM ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OR PRE-TREATMENTS 
TO REDUCE SEVERE FIRE INCIDENCE AND HAZARDOUS 
FUELS.—A hierarchy of use of forest materials that result 
from manual pre-treatments in fire-adapted ecosystems or 
ecological restoration (such as saplings, bushes, fine sur-
face fuels, and materials from plantations that are being 
restored back to native forests) is established in the fol-
lowing order: 
(1) Forest materials shall be— 
(A) left as biomass on the forest floor, 
lopped, scattered, masticated, or piled and 
burned (or a combination of such treatments), 
as appropriate; or 
(B) left as species habitat in the form of 
downed woody debris in the project area. 
(2) If removal of forest material is necessary 
for ecological restoration or because the area is pre- 
treated in accordance with subsection (j), that mate-
rial shall be used for recreation or maintenance 
projects in the same unit of Federal public land, 
such as trails, bridges or facilities, or for restoration
projects such as woody debris in streams, woody de-
bris to provide species habitat, or for biomass to 
build soil in other areas of the same unit of Federal 
public land. 
(3) Any excess material not used as described 
in paragraph (2) may only be used for public pur-
poses, and not for private or public commercial gain. 
This material may be provided for personal non-
commercial uses, such as firewood or other subsist-
ence uses, or for other public noncommercial pur-
poses. Other public purposes may include, but are 
not limited to, the processing of these forest mate-
rials for uses such as fuel for low-income households, 
or, in limited circumstances, timber for low-income 
housing provided by a not for profit venture reg-
istered by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development. 
(l) RELATION TO OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Any ac-
tivities undertaken pursuant to subsection (k) or the rest 
of this section must be undertaken in strict compliance 
with section 4. 
SEC. 8. WORKER RETRAINING. 
(a) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL DEFINED.—For the pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘‘eligible individual’’ means 
an individual who—
(1) is a dislocated worker, as that term is de-
fined in section 101 of the Workforce Investment 
Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801); and 
(2) has been terminated or laid off, or has re-
ceived a notice of termination or lay off, as a con-
sequence of the enactment of this Act, or as a con-
sequence of management decisions on Federal public 
lands prior to the enactment of this Act. 
(b) DETERMINATIONS OF ELIGIBILITY.—The deter-
mination of whether an individual is an eligible individual 
shall be made by the Secretary of Labor, pursuant to cri-
teria established by the Secretary of Labor, in consultation 
with the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior. 
(c) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Labor 
may make grants to States, employers, employer associa-
tions, and representatives of employees— 
(1) to provide training, adjustment assistance, 
and employment services to eligible individuals; and 
(2) to make needs-related payments to eligible 
individuals in accordance with subsection (h). 
(d) PRIORITY AND APPROVAL.— 
(1) PRIORITY.—In reviewing applications for 
grants under subsection (c), the Secretary of Labor 
shall give priority to applications proposing to pro-
vide training, adjustment assistance, and services in
areas which have the greatest number or percentage 
of eligible individuals. 
(2) NEEDS-RELATED PAYMENTS REQUIRED.— 
The Secretary of Labor shall not approve an appli-
cation for a grant under subsection (c) unless the 
application contains assurances that the applicant 
will use grant funds to provide needs-related pay-
ments in accordance with subsection (h). 
(e) USE OF FUNDS.—Subject to the requirements of 
subsections (f), (g), and (h), grants under subsection (c) 
may be used for any purpose for which funds may be used 
under section 134 of the Workforce Investment Act of 
1998 (29 U.S.C. 2864). 
(f) JOB SEARCH ALLOWANCE.— 
(1) ALLOWANCE AUTHORIZED.—Grants under 
subsection (c) for adjustment assistance may be 
used to provide job search allowances to eligible indi-
viduals. Such allowance, if granted, shall provide re-
imbursement to the individual of not more than 90 
percent of the cost of necessary job search expenses, 
as prescribed by regulations of the Secretary of 
Labor, but may not exceed $1,200 unless the need 
for a greater amount is justified in the application 
and approved by the Secretary of Labor.
(2) CRITERIA FOR GRANTING JOB SEARCH AL-
LOWANCES.—A job search allowance may be granted 
only— 
(A) to assist an eligible individual who has 
been totally separated in securing a job within 
the United States; and 
(B) where the Secretary of Labor deter-
mines that such employee cannot reasonably be 
expected to secure suitable employment in the 
commuting area in which the worker resides. 
(g) RELOCATION ALLOWANCE.— 
(1) ALLOWANCE AUTHORIZED.—Grants under 
subsection (c) for adjustment assistance may be 
used to provide relocation allowances to eligible indi-
viduals. Such an allowance may only be granted to 
assist an eligible individual in relocating within the 
United States and only if the Secretary of Labor de-
termines that such employee— 
(A) cannot reasonably be expected to se-
cure suitable employment in the commuting 
area in which the employee resides; 
(B) has obtained suitable employment af-
fording a reasonable expectation of long-term 
duration in the area in which the employee
wishes to relocate, or has obtained a bona fide 
offer of such employment; and 
(C) is totally separated from employment 
at the time relocation commences. 
(2) AMOUNT
OF
RELOCATION
ALLOWANCE.— 
The amount of any relocation allowance for any eli-
gible individual may not exceed the amount which is 
equal to the sum of— 
(A) 90 percent of the reasonable and nec-
essary expenses, specified in regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary, incurred in trans-
porting an individual and the individual’s fam-
ily, if any, and household effects; and 
(B) a lump sum equivalent to 3 times the 
employee’s average weekly wage, up to a max-
imum payment of $1,200, unless the need for 
a greater amount is justified in the application 
and approved by the Secretary of Labor. 
(h) NEEDS-RELATED PAYMENTS.—The Secretary of 
Labor shall prescribe regulations with respect to the use 
of funds from grants under subsection (c) for needs-re-
lated payments in order to enable eligible individuals to 
complete training or education programs under this sec-
tion. Such regulations shall—
(1) require that such payments shall be pro-
vided to an eligible individual only if such indi-
vidual— 
(A) does not qualify or has ceased to qual-
ify for unemployment compensation; 
(B) has been enrolled in training by the 
end of the 13th week of the individual’s initial 
unemployment compensation benefit period, or, 
if later, the end of the 8th week after an indi-
vidual is informed that a short-term layoff will 
in fact exceed six months; and 
(C) is participating in training or edu-
cation programs under this section, except that 
such regulations shall protect an individual 
from being disqualified pursuant to this clause 
for a failure to participate that is not the fault 
of the individual; 
(2) provide that to qualify for such payments 
the individual currently receives, or is a member of 
a family which currently receives, a total family in-
come (exclusive of unemployment compensation, 
child support payments, and welfare payments) 
which, in relation to family size, is not in excess of 
the lower living standard income level;
(3) provide that the levels of such payments 
shall be equal to the higher of— 
(A) the applicable level of unemployment 
compensation; or 
(B) the poverty level determined in accord-
ance with criteria established by the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget; 
(4) provide for the adjustment of payments to 
reflect changes in total family income; and 
(5) provide that the grantee shall obtain infor-
mation with respect to such income, and changes 
therein, from the eligible individual. 
(i) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Labor shall 
prescribe regulations to carry out this section not later 
than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 9. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS. 
(a) AVAILABILITY
OF CERTAIN ACCOUNTS.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, from the date of 
the enactment of this Act through the duration of the two- 
year phase-out period provided in section 5 plus two years 
thereafter, all funds in each of the following Forest Service 
and Bureau of Land Management accounts, including any 
funds deposited into these accounts during the two-year 
phase-out period, shall be used only to carry out this Act:
(1) Timber salvage funds (including the Salvage 
Sale Fund established under section 14(h) of the 
National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 
U.S.C. 472a(h))). 
(2) The fund established under section 3 of the 
Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the 
Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b). 
(3) The fund containing moneys associated with 
the Purchaser-Elect Roads Program under section 6 
of Public Law 88–657 (commonly known as the For-
est Roads And Trails Act; 16 U.S.C. 537). 
(b) ALLOCATION OF TIMBER SALES REVENUES DUR-
ING PHASE-OUT PERIOD.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, from the date of the enactment of this 
Act through the duration of the two-year phase-out period, 
all timber sale revenues from Federal public lands shall 
be deposited in the fund established under section 3 of 
the Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the 
Knutson-Vandenberg Act; 16 U.S.C. 576b). 
(c) ABOLISHMENT OF ACCOUNTS.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the funds referred to in sub-
section (a) shall be used to carry out this section until 
no funds remain in such accounts, after which these ac-
counts shall be abolished.
(d) WORKER RETRAINING.—Monies shall be distrib-
uted from the funds referred to in subsection (a) to carry 
out section 8. Such distributions shall be made in amounts 
up to $80,000,000 in the first year of the phase-out pe-
riod, and $80,000,000 and $120,000,000, respectively, in 
the subsequent two years. 
(e) NATURAL
HERITAGE
RESTORATION
PLAN-
NING.—From the funds referred to in subsection (a), up 
to a sum of $100,000,000 shall be made available to the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
to carry out subsections (d) and (e) of section 7 until such 
time as the Natural Heritage Restoration Plans required 
by subsection (d) of such section have been incorporated 
into the management plans for each unit of Federal public 
lands. 
(f) ALTERNATIVES TO WOOD.—From the funds re-
ferred to in subsection (a), at least $1,000,000 and up 
to $3,000,000 shall be distributed to the Environmental 
Protection Agency to fund an investigation into wood-free 
alternative products for paper and construction. Within 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall make recommendations for grants to entities involved 
in the development and production of the most environ-
mentally sound nonwood alternatives for paper and con-
struction products, including entities involved in using ag-
ricultural residues to produce paper. Up to $100,000,000 
from the funds referred to in subsection (a) shall be made 
available to the Environmental Protection Agency for such 
grants, which shall be made within three years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(g) PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE TO RE-
DUCE STRUCTURE FLAMMABILITY IN URBAN-WILDLAND 
INTERFACE AREAS.—From the funds referred to in sub-
section (a), up to $15,000,000 shall be used annually to 
educate owners of structures on non-Federal land adjacent 
to Federal public lands about ways in which these struc-
tures can be protected from forest fires by reducing the 
flammability of a structure and the area within 40 meters 
of a structure. Both technical support and financial assist-
ance, in coordination or collaboration with existing State 
and local programs, to the extent possible, shall be pro-
vided where, and to the extent, appropriate. 
(h) ALLOCATION OF REMAINING FUNDS.—Any funds 
remaining in the accounts referred to in subsection (a) in 
the fourth year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act shall be deposited into the general fund of the United 
States Treasury.
SEC. 10. CONTINUATION OF PAYMENTS FOR STATES AND 
COUNTIES CONTAINING FEDERAL PUBLIC 
LANDS UNDER PUBLIC LAW 106–393. 
(a) CONTINUATION OF PAYMENTS AFTER FISCAL 
YEAR 2006.—The Secure Rural Schools and Community 
Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–393; 16 
U.S.C. 500 note) is amended— 
(1) in section 101(a), by striking ‘‘years 2001 
through 2006,’’ both places it appears and inserting 
‘‘year 2001 and thereafter,’’; 
(2) in section 102(b)(2), by striking ‘‘through 
fiscal year 2006’’; and 
(3) in section 103(b)(1), by striking ‘‘through 
fiscal year 2006’’. 
(b) TERMINATION OF REQUIREMENT TO RESERVE 
FUNDS FOR FOREST PROJECTS.—(1) Section 102(d) of 
such Act is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION OF ALLOCATION AND ELEC-
TION
REQUIREMENTS.—This subsection shall not 
apply in the case of payments made under sub-
section (a) for fiscal year 2007 and thereafter.’’. 
(2) Section 103(c) of such Act is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION OF ALLOCATION AND ELEC-
TION
REQUIREMENTS.—This subsection shall not
apply in the case of payments made under sub-
section (a) for fiscal year 2007 and thereafter. The 
entire payment amount shall be expended as re-
quired by the laws referred to in subsection (a)(1).’’. 
SEC. 11. ENFORCEMENT BY CITIZENS. 
(a) PURPOSE AND FINDING.—The purpose of this 
section is to foster the widest possible enforcement of this 
Act. Congress finds that all people of the United States 
are injured by any action that violates the provisions of 
this Act on all lands to which this Act applies. 
(b) CITIZEN SUITS AUTHORIZED.—Any person may 
commence a civil action against any person, including the 
United States, who is alleged to be in violation of this Act. 
The action shall be brought in the district court for the 
district in which the alleged violation occurred or the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia. 
When the United States is a defendant, venue may also 
be in the district court for the district in which the office 
of any officer or employee of the United States who is 
alleged to be involved in the violation is located. The dis-
trict court shall have jurisdiction without regard to the 
amount in controversy or the citizenship of the parties. 
(c) RELIEF.—If the court determines that a violation 
of this Act has occurred, the court may issue an injunction 
and provide other appropriate equitable relief as the court
considers necessary. If the plaintiff is the prevailing or 
substantially prevailing party, the court may award to the 
plaintiff reasonable costs of the litigation, including attor-
ney fees, witness fees, and other necessary expenses. When 
the United States is a defendant, any award of costs of 
litigation against the United States shall be paid by the 
United States within 40 days after judgment. 
(d) STANDARD OF PROOF.—The standard of proof 
in all actions brought under this section shall be the pre-
ponderance of the evidence and the trial shall be de novo. 
(e) WAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.—The United 
States, including its agencies, agents, and employees, 
waives its sovereign immunity in all respects in all actions 
under this section. No notice is required to enforce this 
section. 
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