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Version 00 · 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.
People & committees
Rep. Schrier, Kim [D-WA-8] · D–WA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
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.
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.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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