---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6573"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "6573"
heading: "Restoration plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/6573"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Healthy Forest Restoration"
  - "Subchapter V — Healthy Forests Reserve Program"
---

# §6573. Restoration plans

- (a) **In general—** Land enrolled in the healthy forests reserve program shall be subject to a restoration plan, to be developed jointly by the landowner and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture, in coordination with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior.
- (b) **Practices—** The restoration plan shall require such restoration practices and measures as are necessary to restore and enhance habitat for species described in [section 6572(b) of this title](/usc/16/6572.md?p=b), including the following:
  - (1) Land management practices.
  - (2) Vegetative treatments.
  - (3) Structural practices and measures.
  - (4) Practices to increase carbon sequestration.
  - (5) Practices to improve biological diversity.
  - (6) Other practices and measures.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–148, title V, § 503, Dec. 3, 2003, 117 Stat. 1912; Pub. L. 115–334, title VIII, § 8407(a)(7), (9), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4846.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–334, § 8407(a)(9), substituted “Secretary of the Interior” for “Secretary of Interior”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–334, § 8407(a)(7), amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The restoration plan shall require such restoration practices as are necessary to restore and enhance habitat for—

“(1) species listed as endangered or threatened under section 1533 of this title; and

“(2) animal or plant species before the species reach threatened or endangered status, such as candidate, State-listed species, and special concern species.”