National Forests Rehabilitation and Recovery Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3973
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Citizen participation
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Fire prevention
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest health
Forest management
Forest roads
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Hurricanes
Law
Logging
Lumber trade
Minorities
National forests
Native Americans
Pests
Planning
Restoration ecology
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Timber sales
Transportation and Public Works
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
National Forests Rehabilitation and Recovery Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to each, from applications submitted by federal land forest communities (communities), establish up to five post-disturbance pilot projects involving federal land near such communities. Requires that, once an area is designated as a pilot project site, the community that applied for such designation shall develop and submit to the Secretary concerned a plan to address post-disturbance rehabilitation of the project site, whether the uncharacteristic disturbance of the federal land is caused by a wildfire or a nonfire-related event. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide technical and financial assistance to communities to assist their efforts to develop a rehabilitation plan or to amend a community wildfire protection plan to include a rehabilitation plan. Provides for expedited rehabilitation activities following uncharacteristic disturbances at project sites.
 
Directs the Secretary concerned to establish a national oversight committee to provide independent scientific and socioeconomic monitoring of the pilot projects and activities carried out at project sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2048)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2027)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House