Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-727
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2013-02-14
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees

Land use and conservation

Public contracts and procurement

Public-private cooperation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-02-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p> Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend, through FY2023, the authority of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into stewardship end result contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs. </p> <p>Permits the land management goals of such a project to include restoration work, fire fuels reduction, and clearing of overgrowth on snowpack watersheds. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 727 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 14, 2013 Mr. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture , 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 A BILL To extend Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management stewardship end result contracting authority, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013 . 2. Stewardship end result contracting authority (a) Extension of authority Subsection (a) of section 347 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(e) of division A of Public Law 105–277 ; 16 U.S.C. 2104 note), as most recently amended by section 323 of Public Law 108–7 (117 Stat. 275), is amended by striking Until September 30, 2013 and inserting Until September 30, 2023 . (b) Specified land management goal of projects Subsection (b) of such section is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (7) and (8), respectively; and (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new paragraph: (6) restoration work, fire fuels reduction, and clearing overgrowth on snowpack watersheds; .