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Fostering Opportunities for Resources and Education Spending through Timber Sales Act of 2015

H.R. 2178 · 114th Congress · Apr 30, 2015 · Lineage

A BILL

To restore employment and educational opportunities in, and improve the economic stability of, counties containing National Forest System land, while also reducing Forest Service management costs, by ensuring that such counties have a dependable source of revenue from timber sales conducted on National Forest System land, to reduce payments under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to reflect such counties’ receipt of timber sale revenues, to strengthen stewardship end result contracting, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Fostering Opportunities for Resources and Education Spending through Timber Sales Act of 2015” or “FORESTS Act of 2015”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows:
(1)
To restore employment and educational opportunities in, and improve the economic stability of, counties containing National Forest System land.
(2)
To ensure that such counties have a dependable source of revenue from National Forest System land.
(3)
To reduce Forest Service management costs while also ensuring the protection of United States forest resources.
(4)
To reduce the frequency and severity of catastrophic wildfires on Federal lands and to lessen the need for the Forest Service to borrow resources from other important forest management accounts to combat fires.