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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 6032 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend Public Law 88–657 to require greater transparency in the consider- |
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| 6 | 6 | | ation of projects for the Forest Service Legacy Road and Trail Remedi- |
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| 7 | 7 | | ation Program, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | OCTOBER24, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | CHRIER(for herself and Mrs. CHAVEZ-DEREMER) introduced the |
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| 12 | 12 | | following bill |
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| 13 | 13 | | O |
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| 14 | 14 | | CTOBER25, 2023 |
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| 15 | 15 | | Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee |
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| 16 | 16 | | on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the |
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| 17 | 17 | | Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within |
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| 18 | 18 | | the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 19 | 19 | | A BILL |
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| 20 | 20 | | To amend Public Law 88–657 to require greater trans- |
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| 21 | 21 | | parency in the consideration of projects for the Forest |
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| 22 | 22 | | Service Legacy Road and Trail Remediation Program, |
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| 23 | 23 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 24 | 24 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparency in Leg-4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | acy Road and Trail Remediation Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 2. FOREST SERVICE LEGACY ROAD AND TRAIL REME-1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | DIATION PROGRAM TRANSPARENCY. 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Section 8 of Public Law 88–657 (16 U.S.C. 538a) 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | is amended— 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (1) in subsection (c)(2)— 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (A) by striking subparagraph (B) and in-6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | serting the following: 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(B) solicit and consider public input re-8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | gionally in selecting projects for funding under 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | the Program by— 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(i) publishing annually, for each re-11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | gion, a list of projects considered for fund-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ing under the Program; 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(ii) accepting public comment on the 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | projects described in clause (i); and 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(iii) considering public comments in 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | selecting projects for funding under the 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Program;’’; and 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (B) in subparagraph (D)— 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | by inserting ‘‘annually, for each region,’’ 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | before ‘‘publish’’; and 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (ii) by striking clause (ii) and insert-23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ing the following: 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ‘‘(ii) a list that includes a description 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | of— 26 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(I) each project considered for 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | funding under the Program; 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(II) public comments received 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | on each project described in subclause 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (I); 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(III) the ranking within the ap-6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | plicable region of each project de-7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | scribed in subclause (I); and 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(IV) the proposed outcome of 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | each project funded under the Pro-10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | gram for the applicable fiscal year.’’; 11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | and 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(f) D |
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| 75 | 75 | | EFINITION OFREGION.—In this section, the 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | term ‘region’ means one of the 9 regions of the Forest 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | Service.’’. 16 |
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