Title: Good Neighbor Authority Improvement Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Good Neighbor Authority Improvement Act
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to permit the Department of Agriculture to carry out as forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services under a good neighbor agreement the reconstruction, repair, or restoration of a National Forest System road that is necessary to carry out the authorized restoration services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2223 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2223

To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to clarify forest, rangeland, and 
     watershed restoration services under good neighbor agreements.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 2017

 Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Johnson, and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to clarify forest, rangeland, and 
     watershed restoration services under good neighbor agreements.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Good Neighbor Authority Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF FOREST, RANGELAND, AND WATERSHED RESTORATION 
              SERVICES.

    Section 8206(a) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 
2113a(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)(B)(i), by striking ``areas; or'' and 
        inserting the following: ``areas, other than the 
        reconstruction, repair, or restoration of a National Forest 
        System road that is--
                                    ``(I) necessary to carry out 
                                authorized restoration services 
                                pursuant to a good neighbor agreement; 
                                and
                                    ``(II) in the case of a National 
                                Forest System road that is determined 
                                to be unneeded in accordance with 
                                section 212.5(b)(2) of title 36, Code 
                                of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
                                the date of enactment of the Good 
                                Neighbor Authority Improvement Act), 
                                decommissioned in accordance with 
                                subparagraph (A)(iii)--
                                            ``(aa) in a manner that is 
                                        consistent with the applicable 
                                        travel management plan; and
                                            ``(bb) not later than 3 
                                        years after the date on which 
                                        the applicable authorized 
                                        restoration services project is 
                                        completed; or'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs 
        (7) and (8), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) National forest system road.--The term `National 
        Forest System road' has the meaning given the term in section 
        212.1 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
        the date of enactment of the Good Neighbor Authority 
        Improvement Act).''.
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