(2) to offer young adults, particularly those who 
are at-risk or economically disadvantaged, who are 
members of a service and conservation corps the op-
portunity to gain productive employment; 
(3) to provide those young adults the oppor-
tunity to serve their communities and their country; 
and 
(4) to expand educational opportunities by re-
warding individuals who participate in the Healthy 
Forest Youth Conservation Corps with an increased 
ability to pursue higher education or employment. 
SEC. 4. HEALTHY FOREST YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS. 
(a) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—There 
is 
established 
a 
Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps. 
(b) PARTICIPANTS.—The Corps shall consist of 
young adults who are enrolled as members of a service 
and conservation corps covered by a contract or coopera-
tive agreement entered into under subsection (c). 
(c) CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary 
concerned may enter into contracts or cooperative agree-
ments directly with— 
(1) any service and conservation corps to carry 
out a rehabilitation and enhancement project de-
scribed in subsection (d); or
(2) a department of natural resources, agri-
culture, or forestry (or an equivalent department) of 
any State that has entered into a contract or cooper-
ative agreement with a service and conservation 
corps to carry out a rehabilitation and enhancement 
project described in subsection (d). 
(d) AUTHORIZED PROJECTS.—Under a contract or 
cooperative agreement entered into under subsection (c), 
a service and conservation corps may carry out a rehabili-
tation and enhancement project to prevent fire and sup-
press fires, rehabilitate public land affected or altered by 
fires, and provide disaster relief, including— 
(1) a project relating to the National Fire Plan; 
(2) a project relating to the Healthy Forests 
Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.); 
and 
(3) other activities allowed under— 
(A) a national forest and grassland land 
management plan; or 
(B) a Bureau of Land Management land 
use plan. 
(e) PRIORITY PROJECTS.—In entering into a contract 
or cooperative agreement under subsection (b), the Sec-
retary concerned shall give priority to projects that will— 
(1) reduce hazardous fuels on public land;
(2) restore public land affected or imminently 
threatened by disease or insect infestation; 
(3) rehabilitate public land affected or altered 
by fires; 
(4) assess windthrown public land or public 
land at high risk of reburn; 
(5) work to address public land located within 
relative proximity to a municipal watershed and mu-
nicipal water supply; 
(6) provide related emergency assistance, such 
as natural disaster relief and the rescue of lost or 
injured persons; 
(7) instill in members of the service and con-
servation corps a work ethic and a sense of personal 
responsibility; 
(8) be labor-intensive; and 
(9) be planned and initiated promptly. 
(f) SUPPORTIVE
SERVICES.—The Secretary con-
cerned may provide such services as the Secretary con-
siders to be necessary to carry out this Act, including tech-
nical assistance, oversight, monitoring, and evaluation to 
or for— 
(1) State departments of natural resources and 
agriculture (or equivalent agencies); 
(2) service and conservation corps;
(3) in the case of Indian lands, the applicable 
Indian tribe; 
(4) in the case of Hawaiian home lands, the ap-
plicable State agency in the State of Hawaii; and 
(5) in the case of land under the jurisdiction of 
an Alaska Native Corporation, the applicable Alaska 
Native Corporation. 
(g) OTHER USES OF FUNDS.—Funds made available 
under this Act may be used to support implementation, 
monitoring, training, technical assistance, and administra-
tive work of service and conservation corps covered by a 
contract or cooperative agreement entered into under sub-
section (c). 
SEC. 5. NONCOMPETITIVE HIRING STATUS. 
The Secretary may grant a person who is a former 
member of the Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps 
with credit for time served as a member of the Corps to-
ward future Federal hiring and may provide the person 
with a noncompetitive hiring status for not more than 120 
days beginning on the date on which the person completed 
service as a member of the Corps. 
SEC. 6. NONDISPLACEMENT. 
The nondisplacement requirements of section 177(b) 
of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 12637(b)) shall apply to activities carried out 
under this Act. 
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ALASKA NATIVE CORPORATION.—The term 
‘‘Alaska Native Corporation’’ means a Regional Cor-
poration or Village Corporation, as those terms are 
defined in section 3 of the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1602). 
(2) HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS.—The term ‘‘Ha-
waiian home lands’’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 203 of Public Law 91–378 (commonly 
known as the ‘‘Youth Conservation Corps Act of 
1970’’) (16 U.S.C. 1722). 
(3) INDIAN LANDS.—The term ‘‘Indian lands’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 203 of 
Public Law 91–378 (commonly known as the 
‘‘Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970’’) (16 
U.S.C. 1722). 
(4) PUBLIC
LAND.—The term ‘‘public land’’ 
means— 
(A) land of the National Forest System (as 
defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 
of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1609(a)));