Fulfilling Our Responsibility for Efficient and Sustainable Timber Supply Act of 2013
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Jun 28, 2013)
Fulfilling Our Responsibility for Efficient and Sustainable Timber Supply Act of 2013 or the FORESTS Act of 2013 - Extends through FY2023 the authority for 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.
Prohibits a multiyear stewardship contract from exceeding a 20-year period (under current law, a 10-year period).
Bars the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) and the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretaries) from being required to obligate funds to cover the costs of cancelling or terminating multiyear stewardship contracts or agreements until they are cancelled or terminated. Specifies the funding sources from which the costs of cancelling or terminating a multiyear stewardship contract may be paid.
Requires 25% of timber sale receipts from a multiyear stewardship contract or agreement to be paid to the county within whose boundaries the receipts are derived.
Authorizes the Secretaries to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts with state foresters to provide forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services. Permits state foresters to enter into subcontracts to provide such restoration and protection services. Prohibits the extension of such an agreement or contract beyond a 20-year period.
What just happenedAug 13, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseJun 28, 2013
- Aug 13, 2013Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
- Jul 8, 2013Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
- Jun 28, 2013IntroReferralH11100
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.
- Jun 28, 2013IntroReferralH11100
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.
- Jun 28, 2013IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Jun 28, 2013IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House