National Forest Protection and Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-2169
Sponsor: Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Animals
Biological diversity
Building materials
Citizen lawsuits
Claims
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Dams
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Dislocated workers
District courts
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee selection
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Federal advisory bodies
Fire prevention
Fishery management
Forest conservation
Forest fires
Forest roads
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Impact aid
Injunctions
Job hunting
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Landslides
Larceny
Law
Legal fees
Logging
Low-income housing
Lumber trade
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National forests
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational retraining
Old growth forests
Paper and paper products
Pest control
Pests
Planning
Poaching
Reforestation
Regional planning
Relocation
Restoration ecology
Revegetation
Revenue sharing
Road construction
Roads and highways
Rural education
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Subsidies
Timber sales
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Wildlife refuges
Wildlife reintroduction
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: National Forest Protection and Restoration Act - Prohibits commercial logging and timber sales (with specified exceptions) on Federal public lands, with a two-year phase-out for existing contracts. Provides for payment of relinquished contracts.
Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to each: (1) establish a National Heritage Restoration Corps to restore (and monitor) such lands to their natural pre-logging condition; and (2) develop National Heritage Restoration Plans and related standards for regional ecological restoration and monitoring.
Sets forth provisions respecting forest fire and hazardous fuel reduction.
Provides for worker retraining of eligible persons whose jobs have been lost due to terminated timber and logging contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make training grants, including grants for job search and relocation.
Sets forth fund allocation provisions, including amounts for an Environmental Protection Agency investigation of non-wood paper and construction alternatives.
Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to make permanent certain education, transportation, and public purpose payments to States and counties containing Federal land.
Authorizes a private right of action for violations of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House