Community-Based Forest and Public Lands Restoration Act

Summary

Community-Based Forest and Public Lands Restoration Act - Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish a collaborative community-based restoration program for National Forest System (NFS) and public lands. Authorizes the Secretaries to make cooperative agreements with specified entities and to hire additional outreach specialists to protect such lands. Directs the Secretaries to provide cost-share grants, cooperative agreements, or both to establish Restoration and Value-Added Centers to provide technical assistance to non-profit organizations, small or micro-enterprises, and persons forming natural-resource small or micro-enterprises. Specifies certain regions that must have at least one Center, including northern California and eastern Oregon. Directs the Secretaries to limit competition for special salvage timber sales and other timber-related contracts and agreements such that natural-resource related small or micro-enterprises and other specified entities receive a specified percentage of the contracts and agreements each year. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program of applied research to identify restoration methods and treatments and to test and develop value-added products created from the by-products of restoration.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 8 October 2002

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• Reported to Senate (PDF)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 8 October 2002

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 8 October 2002

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 24 June 2002

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 24 June 2002

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 24 June 2002

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