Title: To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill establishes the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.
Specifically, under the program, the Forest Service shall
In implementing the program, the Forest Service shall give priority to projects that protect or restore
The Forest Service shall identify the minimum road system needed for each unit of the National Forest System.
The Forest Service shall develop a national strategy to carry out the program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7273 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7273

 To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation 
                                Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2020

Ms. Schrier (for herself and Mr. Kilmer) 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 provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation 
                                Program.

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

SECTION 1. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROADS AND TRAILS REMEDIATION PROGRAM.

    Public Law 88-657 (16 U.S.C. 532 et seq.) (commonly known as the 
``Forest Roads and Trails Act'') is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 8. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROADS AND TRAILS REMEDIATION PROGRAM.

    ``(a) Establishment.--There is established the Forest Service 
Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program (referred to in this 
section as `the Program').
    ``(b) Administration.--The Program shall be administered by the 
Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to 
in this section as the `Secretary').
    ``(c) National Strategy.--The Secretary shall develop a national 
strategy to carry out the Program, in accordance with this section.
    ``(d) Activities.--In carrying out the Program, the Secretary 
shall--
            ``(1) carry out critical deferred maintenance, urgent 
        repairs, road and trail relocation, and associated activities 
        on National Forest System roads, trails, and bridges;
            ``(2) restore passages of fish and other aquatic species by 
        removing or replacing unnatural barriers from such passages; 
        and
            ``(3) decommission roads and trails in accordance with 
        subsection (h).
    ``(e) Priority.--In implementing the Program, the Secretary shall 
give priority to projects that protect or restore--
            ``(1) water quality and watershed function;
            ``(2) a watershed that supplies a public drinking water 
        system;
            ``(3) the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or sensitive 
        fish or wildlife species, or species of conservation concern; 
        or
            ``(4) a watershed for which the Secretary has completed a 
        watershed protection and restoration action plan pursuant to 
        section 304 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 
        6543).
    ``(f) National Forest System.--Except with respect to a project 
carried out on a watershed for which the Secretary has a cooperative 
agreement under section 323 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (16 U.S.C. 1011a), each 
project carried out under this section shall be on a National Forest 
System road or trail.
    ``(g) Identification of Minimum Road Systems.--Not later than 3 
years after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
identify, for each unit of the National Forest System, the minimum road 
system and unneeded roads in accordance with section 212.5(b) of title 
36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment 
of this Act).
    ``(h) Unneeded Roads.--The Secretary shall decommission any roads 
identified as unneeded under subsection (g) as soon as practicable 
after making the identification under that subsection.
    ``(i) Review; Revision.--The Secretary shall review, and may 
revise, an identification made under subsection (g) for a unit of the 
National Forest System during a revision of the land and resource 
management plan applicable to that unit.
    ``(j) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2020 through 2030.''.
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