US Congress Senate Bill 3310 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on September 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-09-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Environmental and Economic Benefits Restoration Act of 2016 This bill amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a landscape-scale restoration program to provide financial and technical assistance for landscape-scale restoration projects on state, political subdivision, and private forest lands that maintain or improve benefits from trees and forests on such lands. The program shall: address the national private forest conservation priorities specified under the Act; and enhance public benefits from trees and forests, as identified in a state-wide assessment and a long-term state-wide forest resource strategy under the Act. The program shall also have one or more objectives, including to: protect or improve water quality or quantity; reduce wildfire risk; protect or enhance wildlife habitat, consistent with wildlife objectives established by the applicable state fish and wildlife agency; improve forest health, including addressing native, nonnative, and invasive pests; or enhance opportunities for new and existing markets in which the production and use of wood products strengthens local and regional economies. USDA shall establish a measurement system to measure the results of landscape-scale restoration projects assisted under this bill. USDA shall allocate from the amounts made available under this bill: 50% for the competitive process for distributing funds for landscape-scale restoration projects; and 50% proportionally to states to maximize the achievement of the restoration program's objectives and to address the highest national priorities, as identified in state-wide assessments and long-term state-wide forest resource strategies. The bill amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to allocate funds and use specified USDA authorities to assist cross-boundary hazardous fuel reduction and wildfire mitigation programs.

Environmental and Economic Benefits Restoration Act of 2016

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]

Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-09-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3310/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s3310/BILLS-114s3310is.pdf