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FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
SEC. 427. The authority provided under the heading ‘‘Forest 
Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title I of Public Law 
111–88, as amended by section 117 of division F of Public Law 
113–235, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2026’’ for 
‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each place it appears. 
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS, LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
SEC. 428. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appro-
priate, shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2026 pursu-
ant to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States 
Code, to the agencies and accounts specified, for the projects speci-
fied under the accounts titled ‘‘Land Acquisition Projects’’ and 
‘‘Forest Legacy Projects’’ in the Forest Service, and in the amounts 
specified in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026’’ in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act): Provided, That the matter preceding this proviso 
shall not apply to amounts in any account titled ‘‘Land Acquisition 
Projects’’ in the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service, or National Park Service in such table. 
(2)(A) Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall provide to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations project lists with project data sheets as described 
in subsection (c)(4), which shall include a sufficient number of 
projects to total the amounts for the account titled ‘‘Land Acquisition 
Projects’’ for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, as 
specified in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026’’ in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act): Provided, That on the date on which the Secretary 
of the Interior provides to the Committees on Appropriations such 
project lists with such project data sheets, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations lists 
of supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition projects 
for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service that are prioritized 
and detailed by account, program, and project, and that total no 
less than half the full amount allocated to each such account for 
that land management Agency in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of 
Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026’’ in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided further, 
That expenditure of funds under this paragraph is a reprogramming 
and shall be subject to section 421 of this Act. 
(B) Within 45 days of the date on which a reprogramming 
is approved pursuant to the last proviso in subparagraph (A), the 
Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts made available 
for expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for 
fiscal year 2026 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 200303 of 
title 54, United States Code, to the account titled ‘‘Land Acquisition 
Projects’’ for each of the Bureau of Land Management, United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, as
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applicable, in the amounts specified in the table titled ‘‘Allocation 
of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026’’ 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act) and for the projects 
included in the project lists approved by the Committees on Appro-
priations in accordance with subparagraph (A). 
(3) If any portion of a project specified under the accounts 
titled ‘‘Land Acquisition Projects’’ and ‘‘Forest Legacy Projects’’ in 
the Forest Service in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2026’’ in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act) or for the projects included in the 
project lists approved by the Committees on Appropriations in 
accordance with subsection (a)(2)(A) is intended to be carried out 
within the Federal land unit or project boundary as specified in 
such table (or any prior allocation table incorporated by reference 
into a prior Act, as applicable) or project list but outside the specific 
tracts for the project described in the corresponding project data 
sheet submitted to the Committees on Appropriations required by 
section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, or paragraph 
(2), not later than 30 days before the date on which the Secretary 
of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture expends amounts 
on the project, the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
Agriculture, as appropriate, shall provide written notice to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of such expendi-
ture. 
(b) Neither the President nor his designee may allocate any 
amounts that are made available for any fiscal year under sub-
section (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, other 
than in amounts and for projects and activities that are allocated 
by subsection (a)(1) or in accordance with subsection (a)(2) of this 
section: Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding 
this proviso shall not apply to the allocation of amounts for con-
tinuing administration of programs allocated funds from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in 
amounts that are no more than the allocation for such purposes 
in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section. 
(c)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the 
President for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations a list of supplementary 
allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy Projects 
at the Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Submission of 
Cost Estimates’’ required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United 
States Code, that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, 
and project, and that total no less than half the full amount allo-
cated to each such account for the Forest Service under the alloca-
tions submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States 
Code: Provided, That in the event amounts allocated by this Act 
or any prior Act pursuant to subsection (a) of section 200303 of 
title 54, United States Code, are no longer needed because a project 
has been completed or can no longer be executed, such amounts 
must be clearly identified if proposed for reallocation in the annual 
budget submission. 
(2) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the Presi-
dent for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations a list of supplementary alloca-
tions for Federal land acquisition projects at the National Park
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Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau 
of Land Management that are in addition to the ‘‘Submission of 
Cost Estimates’’ required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United 
States Code, that are prioritized and detailed by account, program, 
and project, and that total the full amount allocated to each such 
account for that land management Agency in the table titled ‘‘Alloca-
tion of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 
2026’’ in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided, 
That in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior 
Act pursuant to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United 
States Code, are no longer needed because a project has been 
completed or can no longer be executed, such amounts must be 
clearly identified if proposed for reallocation in the annual budget 
submission. 
(3) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy projects 
in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, in the project lists 
provided under subsection (a)(2), in the list of supplementary alloca-
tions provided under subsection (a)(2), and on the lists of supple-
mentary allocations required by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be 
comprised only of projects for which a willing seller has been 
identified and for which an appraisal or market research has been 
initiated. 
(4) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the Presi-
dent for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations project data sheets in the same format and con-
taining the same level of detailed information that is found on 
such sheets in the Budget Justifications annually submitted by 
the Secretary of the Interior with the President’s Budget for the 
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the same format 
and containing the same level of detailed information that is found 
on such sheets submitted to the Committees on Appropriations 
pursuant to section 427 of division D of the Further Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) for the list of supple-
mentary allocations required by paragraphs (1) and (2). 
(5) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations quarterly 
reports on the status of balances of projects and activities funded 
by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 
and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and the status of 
balances of projects and activities funded by the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection 
(a)(2) of this section, including all uncommitted, committed, and 
unobligated funds. 
(d) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, 
shall allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2025 pursuant 
to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, 
to the agencies and accounts specified, for the projects specified, 
under the accounts specified, and in the amounts specified in the 
table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Fiscal Year 2025 Revisions’’ in the explanatory statement
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described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act). 
(e)(1) Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations project lists 
with project data sheets, which shall include a sufficient number 
of projects to total the amounts for the account titled ‘‘National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund’’ for each of the 
Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Education, and 
U.S. Forest Service: Provided, That expenditure of funds under 
this paragraph is a reprogramming and shall be subject to section 
421 of this Act. 
(2) Within 45 days of the date on which a reprogramming 
is approved pursuant to the last proviso in subparagraph (1), the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 
2026 pursuant to subsection (c) of 200402 of title 54, United States 
Code, to the account titled ‘‘National Parks and Public Land Legacy 
Restoration Fund’’ for each of the Bureau of Land Management, 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, 
Bureau of Indian Education, and U.S. Forest Service as applicable, 
in the amounts specified and for the projects included in the project 
lists approved by the Committees on Appropriations in accordance 
with subparagraph (1). 
POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY 
SEC. 429. To support the key role that forests in the United 
States can play in addressing the energy needs of the United 
States, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Agriculture, and 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, 
consistent with their missions, jointly—
(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest bioenergy—
(A) is consistent across all Federal departments and 
agencies; and 
(B) recognizes the full benefits of the use of forest 
biomass for energy, conservation, and responsible forest 
management; and 
(2) establish clear and simple policies for the use of forest 
biomass as an energy solution, including policies that—
(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest bioenergy 
and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source, pro-
vided the use of forest biomass for energy production does 
not cause conversion of forests to non-forest use; 
(B) encourage private investment throughout the forest 
biomass supply chain, including in—
(i) working forests; 
(ii) harvesting operations; 
(iii) forest improvement operations; 
(iv) forest bioenergy production; 
(v) wood products manufacturing; or 
(vi) paper manufacturing; 
(C) encourage forest management to improve forest 
health; and