To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a demonstration program to facilitate landscape restoration programs within certain units of the National Park System established by law to preserve and interpret resources associated with American history, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5411
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Forest management
Historic sites
History
Insect control
Landscape protection
Military history
Military parks
National parks
Non-native species
Pest control
Planning
Sunset legislation
Timber sales
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to carry out a demonstration program that provides that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for expenditure within units of the National Park System from which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the restoration or protection of park resources or values.
 
Instructs the Secretary to permit each of the existing 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield Sites to participate in the demonstration program if the unit has in place a general management plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources management plan approved pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cultural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduction.
 
Requires each unit selected to participate in the demonstration program to retain receipts from the sale or disposal of timber removed. Provides for such receipts to be available for expenditure for within a unit for the following purposes only: (1) landscape restoration; (2) interpretive services; (3) eradication of disease, insects, or invasive species; or (4) fuel load reduction. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit a report containing a specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units authorized to participate in such demonstration program. 

action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to carry out a demonstration program that provides that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for expenditure within units of the National Park System from which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the restoration or protection of park resources or values. 
 
Instructs the Secretary to permit each of the existing 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield Sites to participate in the demonstration program if the unit has in place a general management plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources management plan approved pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cultural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduction.
 
Requires each unit selected to participate in the demonstration program to retain receipts from the sale or disposal of timber removed. Provides for such receipts to be available for expenditure for within a unit for the following purposes only: (1) landscape restoration; (2) interpretive services; (3) eradication of disease, insects, or invasive species; or (4) fuel load reduction. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit: (1) a report containing a specific timeline for timber removal in each of the units authorized to participate in the demonstration program; and (2) a report containing the results of such demonstration program, including any resource or other impacts, positive or negative, on each participating unit.
 
Sunsets the authority granted to the Secretary to carry out the demonstration program four years after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 337.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-586.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-586.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Subcommittee on National Parks Discharged.
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Introduced in House