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Union Calendar No. 55 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 309 
[Report No. 110–90] 
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 preserve and interpret re-
sources associated with American history, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 5, 2007 
Mr. PEARCE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
APRIL 17, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 5, 2007] 
A BILL 
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. 
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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 demonstration 
program to facilitate landscape restoration programs with-
in those units of the National Park System established by 
statute to preserve and interpret resources associated 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’’), acting 
through the Director of the National Park Service, shall 
carry out a demonstration program that provides that re-
ceipts from timber sales shall be retained for expenditure 
within units of the National Park System from which the 
timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the res-
toration or protection of park resources or values. 
(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 partici-
pate in the demonstration program authorized by sub-
section (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 management plan ap-
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proved pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), that identifies specific tim-
ber for removal for purposes of cultural or historic land-
scape restoration or fuel load reduction. 
(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 Re-
sources Committee and the Senate Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources that contains the results of the dem-
onstration program authorized under this Act, including— 
(1) a detailed accounting of the receipts gen-
erated in each unit by the demonstration program; 
(2) the expenditure by each unit of those receipts; 
and 
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(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. 
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Union Calendar No. 55 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 309 
[Report No. 110–90] 
A BILL 
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. 
APRIL 17, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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