Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-232
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2007-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Appropriations
Department of Agriculture
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Forest conservation
Forestry
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Habitat conservation
Labor and Employment
Land use
Minorities
Pollution control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: 
Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to make permanent the authorization for the Secretary of Agriculture to use Forest Service appropriations for the purpose of entering into cooperative agreements with government, private, and nonprofit entities and landowners for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and/or the reduction of risk from natural disaster. 
 
Makes provisions regarding executive agency use of procurement contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements inapplicable to: (1) watershed restoration and enhancement agreements entered into under such Act; and (2) cooperative agreements between the Secretary of Agriculture and public or private entities for Forest Service programs, including for cooperative pollution abatement equipment and facilities, cooperative manpower and job training and development, cooperative environmental education and forest history materials, and forestry protection.

action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to make permanent the authorization for the Secretary of Agriculture to use Forest Service appropriations for the purpose of entering into cooperative agreements with government, private, and nonprofit entities and landowners for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and/or the reduction of risk from natural disaster. 
 
Makes provisions regarding executive agency use of procurement contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements inapplicable to: (1) watershed restoration and enhancement agreements entered into under such Act; and (2) cooperative agreements between the Secretary of Agriculture and public or private entities for Forest Service programs, including for cooperative pollution abatement equipment and facilities, cooperative manpower and job training and development, cooperative environmental education and forest history materials, and forestry protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 33.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-8.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-8.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S300)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S300)
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate