Title: Trail Stewardship for Economic Recovery Act of 2020
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Trail Stewardship for Economic Recovery Act of 2020
This bill establishes the Trail Stewardship for Economic Recovery Fund. The Forest Service shall use amounts deposited in the fund to enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with an outfitter or guide to carry out on National Forest System lands (1) trail maintenance projects, and (2) additional invasive plant and noxious weed prevention and control projects.
The Forest Service shall (1) give preference to projects that can be performed in an area that the Forest Service has selected as a trail maintenance priority area, and (2) expedite projects with the goal of initiating the majority of them not later than 120 days after enactment of this bill.
The Forest Service must annually submit to Congress a list of those projects that (1) meet the criteria described above; and (2) have been, or are expected to be, funded from the deposited amounts.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4035 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4035

To establish and provide for the use of amounts in a Trail Stewardship 
          for Economic Recovery Fund, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 23, 2020

Mr. Daines (for himself and Ms. Sinema) 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 establish and provide for the use of amounts in a Trail Stewardship 
          for Economic Recovery Fund, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Trail Stewardship for Economic 
Recovery Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF TRAIL STEWARDSHIP FOR ECONOMIC 
              RECOVERY FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund, to be known as the ``Trail Stewardship for 
Economic Recovery Fund'' (referred to in this section as the ``Fund'').
    (b) Deposit Into the Fund.--On the date of enactment of this Act, 
out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise obligated, the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall deposit into the Fund $200,000,000, to remain 
available until expended and without further appropriation or fiscal 
year limitation, to carry out the purposes described in subsection (c).
    (c) Use of Fund.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
        through the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to in this 
        section as the ``Secretary''), shall use amounts in the Fund to 
        enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with an 
        outfitter or guide to complete, on National Forest System 
        land--
                    (A) trail maintenance projects; and
                    (B) additional invasive plant and noxious weed 
                prevention and control projects.
            (2) Preference.--In entering into cooperative agreements or 
        contracts under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall--
                    (A) give preference to projects described in 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) that can be 
                performed in an area that the Secretary has selected as 
                a priority area under section 5 of the National Forest 
                System Trails Stewardship Act (16 U.S.C. 583k-3); and
                    (B) expedite projects with the goal of initiating 
                the majority of the projects not later than 120 days 
                after the date of enactment of this Act.
            (3) Contracts and agreements.--A cooperative agreement or 
        contract that is entered into under paragraph (1)--
                    (A) shall not be subject to any requirement 
                relating to the procurement of matching funds under any 
                other provision of law; and
                    (B) may contain such terms and conditions as the 
                Secretary requires.
    (d) Submission of List of Projects to Congress.--Not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 
for each fiscal year for which amounts made available under subsection 
(b) are expended, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House of Representatives a list of projects described 
in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (c)(1) that--
            (1) meet the criteria described in this section; and
            (2) have been, or are expected to be, funded from amounts 
        made available under subsection (b).
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