Sec. 101. Insect infestations and related diseases
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Section 401 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6551 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by redesignating paragraphs
(3)through
(12)as paragraphs
(4)through (13), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph
(2)the following: the mountain pine beetle is— threatening and ravaging forests throughout the Western region of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and South Dakota; reaching epidemic populations and severely impacting over 41,000,000 acres in western forests; and deteriorating forest health in national forests and, when combined with drought, disease, and storm damage, is resulting in extreme fire hazards in national forests across the Western United States and endangering the economic stability of surrounding adjacent communities, ranches, and parks; ; and in subsection (b)— in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: to provide for designation of treatment areas pursuant to section 405. . Title IV of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6551 et seq. ) is amended— by redesignating sections 405 and 406 ( 16 U.S.C. 6555 , 6556) as sections 406 and 407, respectively; and by inserting after section 404 ( 16 U.S.C. 6554 ) the following: Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the Depleting Risk from Insect Infestation, Soil Erosion, and Catastrophic Fire Act , the Secretary, in consultation with the Governor of each State, shall designate as part of an insect and disease treatment and research pilot program 1 or more subwatersheds (sixth-level hydrologic units, according to the System of Hydrologic Unit Codes of the United States Geological Survey) in at least 1 national forest in each State that is experiencing an insect or disease epidemic. A subwatershed designated under subsection
(a)shall be— experiencing substantially increased tree mortality due to insect or disease infestation, based on annual forest health surveys conducted by the Secretary; at risk of experiencing substantially increased tree mortality over the next 15 years due to insect or disease infestation, based on the most recent National Insect and Disease Risk Map published by the Forest Service; or in an area in which the risk of hazard trees poses an imminent risk to public infrastructure, health, or safety. The Secretary may carry out priority projects on Federal land in the subwatersheds designated under subsection
(a)to reduce the risk or extent of, or increase the resilience to, insect or disease infestation in the subwatersheds. Any project under paragraph
(1)for which a public notice to initiate scoping is issued on or before September 30, 2017, may be carried out in accordance with subsections (b), (c), (d), and
(g)of section 102, and sections, 104, 105, 106, and 401. Projects carried out under this subsection shall be considered authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects for purposes of the authorities described in paragraph (2). Not later than September 30, 2017, the Secretary shall issue a report that includes— an evaluation of the progress towards project goals; and recommendations for modifications to the projects and management treatments. The Secretary shall carry out projects under subsection
(c)in a manner that maximizes the retention of old-growth and large trees, as appropriate for the forest type, to the extent that the trees promote stands that are resilient to insects and disease. . Section 407 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (as redesignated by subsection (b)(1)) is amended by striking 2008 and inserting 2017 .
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