To require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a wildland-urban restoration charter forest demonstration project in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands to increase community involvement in decisionmaking regarding the management of those forests and grasslands, to evaluate the feasibility of using a predecisional review process for projects conducted as part of the demonstration project, to provide stewardship contracting authority as part of the demonstration project, and for other purposes.

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Pike and San Isabel Restoration Charter Forest Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the Forest Service, to conduct a ten-year wildland-urban restoration charter forest demonstration project for the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands in Colorado, in order to increase community management in such National Forest System lands.Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for independent scientific review and monitoring of such lands' ecological, social, and economic sustainability; (2) establish a community management council; (3) develop a programmatic environmental impact statement to establish such project; and (4) establish a predecisional review process for use during the project's duration in connection with site-specific projects.Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to enter into stewardship and end result contracts during the project's duration; and (2) FY 2003 through 2005 appropriations.

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Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6] · R–CO

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Natural Resources Committee

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Jun 19, 2002
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Jun 19, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
Jun 11, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Jun 11, 2002
Introduced in House
Jun 11, 2002
Introduced in House

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Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4911

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Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4911

Text version to examine: Introduced in House · 2002-06-11.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/107/bills/hr4911/BILLS-107hr4911ih.htm

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Discuss H.R.4911, 107th Congress: To require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a wildland-urban restoration charter forest demonstration project in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands to increase community involvement in decisionmaking regarding the management of those forests and grasslands, to evaluate the feasibility of using a predecisional review process for projects conducted as part of the demonstration project, to provide stewardship contracting authority as part of the demonstration project, and for other purposes.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4911

Text version to examine: Introduced in House · 2002-06-11.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/107/bills/hr4911/BILLS-107hr4911ih.htm

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