Title: RAC Reform Act of 2017
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
RAC Reform Act of 2017
This bill amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to change the official who shall establish, maintain, and appoint the members of resource advisory committees from: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture to the the applicable Regional Forester for land within the National Forest System; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to the applicable Bureau of Land Management State Director for such portions of the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior classified as timberlands and power-site land valuable for timber that shall be managed for permanent forest production.
Any year of a member's service on such a committee, the majority of which was served during a fiscal year in which the committee's budget was less than $1 million, shall not count as a year of such member's term for purposes of the four-year term limit.
The bill reduces the number of members of each committee, as well as the number representing each specified community interest category.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2898 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2898

To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
of 2000 to modify the appointment and composition of resource advisory 
                              committees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2017

Mr. O'Halleran (for himself and Mr. Westerman) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
of 2000 to modify the appointment and composition of resource advisory 
                              committees.

    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 ``RAC Reform Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. COMPOSITION AND APPOINTMENT OF RESOURCE ADVISORY COMMITTEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 205 of the Secure Rural Schools and 
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``The Secretary 
                concerned'' and inserting ``The applicable department 
                official''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3) by striking ``the Secretary 
                concerned'' and inserting ``the applicable department 
                official'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(6), by striking ``the Secretary 
        concerned'' and inserting ``the applicable department 
        official'';
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``by the 
                Secretary'' and inserting ``by the Applicable 
                Department Official'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``The 
                        Secretary concerned,'' and inserting ``Except 
                        as provided in subparagraph (C), the applicable 
                        department official'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``The 
                        Secretary concerned'' and inserting ``Except as 
                        provided in subparagraph (C), the applicable 
                        department official''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following 
                        new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Exception.--For purposes of applying the 4-
                year term limit under subparagraphs (A) and (B) to a 
                member of a resource advisory committee, the applicable 
                department official shall not count as a year of the 
                member's term any year of service the majority of which 
                was served during a fiscal year for which the budget of 
                the resource advisory committee was less than 
                $1,000,000.'';
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``The Secretary 
                concerned'' and inserting ``The applicable department 
                official'';
                    (D) in paragraph (4), by striking ``The Secretary 
                concerned'' and inserting ``The applicable department 
                official''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(6) Applicable department official defined.--In this 
        section, the term `applicable department official' means--
                    ``(A) with respect to Federal land described in 
                section 3(7)(A), the applicable Regional Forester; and
                    ``(B) with respect to Federal land described in 
                section 3(7)(B), the applicable Bureau of Land 
                Management State Director.'';
            (4) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``15 members'' 
                and inserting ``9 members'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``5 persons'' 
                each place it appears and inserting ``3 persons''; and
                    (C) by striking ``the Secretary concerned'' both 
                places it appears and inserting ``the applicable 
                department official''; and
            (5) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) by striking ``the Secretary concerned'' and 
                inserting ``the applicable department official''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the Secretary'' and inserting 
                ``the applicable department official''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 201(3)(A) of the Secure Rural 
Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 
7121(3)(A)) is amended by inserting ``or applicable department official 
(as defined in section 205(c)(6))'' after ``Secretary concerned''.
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