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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.

4/17/2007--Passed House amended.    (There is 1 other summary)

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to carry out a demonstration program that provides that receipts from timber sales shall be retained for expenditure within units of the National Park System from which the timber is removed as part of an approved plan for the restoration or protection of park resources or values.

Instructs the Secretary to permit each of the existing 24 National Battlefields, National Battlefield Parks, National Military Parks, and National Battlefield Sites to participate in the demonstration program if the unit has in place a general management plan, cultural landscape plan, or other resources management plan approved pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that identifies specific timber for removal for purposes of cultural or historic landscape restoration or fuel load reduction.

Requires each unit selected to participate in the demonstration program to retain receipts from the sale or disposal of timber removed. Provides for such receipts to be available for expenditure for within a unit for the following purposes only: (1) landscape restoration; (2) interpretive services; (3) eradication of disease, insects, or invasive species; or (4) fuel load reduction.

Requires the Secretary to submit a report containing the results of such demonstration program, including: (1) a detailed accounting of the receipts generated in each unit by such program; (2) the expenditure by each unit of those receipts; and (3) any resource or other impacts, positive or negative, on each participating unit.

Terminates the authority granted to the Secretary to carry out the demonstration program under this Act four years after enactment of this Act.



Latest Actions
  • 04/18/2007 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • 04/17/2007 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-90.
  • 04/17/2007 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 55.
  • 04/17/2007 - Mr. Grijalva moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  • 04/17/2007 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3414)
  • 04/17/2007 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3414)
  • 04/17/2007 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  • 04/17/2007 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 309.
  • 03/07/2007 - Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
  • 03/07/2007 - Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
  • 03/07/2007 - Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
  • 02/07/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
  • 01/05/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
H.R.309 Referred to Senate Committee after being Received from House08/31/2007
H.R.309 Reported in House08/31/2007
H.R.309 Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House08/31/2007
H.R.309 Introduced in House08/31/2007

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