To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Jun 18, 2020)
This bill establishes the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.
Specifically, under the program, the Forest Service shall
- carry out critical deferred maintenance, urgent repairs, road and trail relocation, and associated activities on National Forest System roads, trails, and bridges;
- restore passages of fish and other aquatic species by removing or replacing unnatural barriers from such passages; and
- decommission any roads and trails as unneeded as soon as practicable after identifying them as unneeded.
In implementing the program, the Forest Service shall give priority to projects that protect or restore
- water quality and watershed function;
- a watershed that supplies a public drinking water system;
- the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or sensitive fish or wildlife species, or a species of conservation concern; or
- a watershed for which the Forest Service has completed a watershed protection and restoration action plan.
The Forest Service shall identify the minimum road system needed for each unit of the National Forest System.
The Forest Service shall develop a national strategy to carry out the program.
What just happenedAug 13, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseJun 18, 2020
- Aug 13, 2020Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Forestry Subcommittee - Jul 14, 2020Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee - Jul 14, 2020Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Federal Lands Subcommittee - Jun 18, 2020IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
Natural Resources Committee - Jun 18, 2020IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
Agriculture Committee - Jun 18, 2020IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Jun 18, 2020IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House