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Week Ending April 20, 2006

H.R.309 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.

The bill authorizes a demonstration project that returns receipts from timber sales to the National Park Service unit from which the timber is removed as part of a plan for restoring landscape, eradicating disease, insects or invasive species, provide interpretive services or reduce fuel load. 23 National military parks are included in the project.

The overall purpose is to facilitate landscape restoration programs to preserve and interpret resources associated with American history. As such, military battle field and other military parks would participate in the project. The military units, to participate, must already have in place a general management plan, cultural landscape plan or other resource management plans.

The Secretary of Agriculture has six months to produce a timeline to begin removing timber and two years from enactment a report is due detailing receipts generated, how much was spent to receive the receipts and the positive and negative impact of the plan on the individual park units.

Sponsor:  Rep. Stevan Pearce (R-NM-2^nd)

Vote: Passed House by voice vote April 17, 2007

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

Earmark Certification:   Not applicable to this bill.

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