Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Title I—Restoring the Commitment to Rural Counties and Schools Sec. 101. Purposes. Sec. 102. Definitions. Sec. 103. Establishment of Forest Reserve Revenue Areas and annual volume requirements. Sec. 104. Management of Forest Reserve Revenue Areas. Sec. 105. Distribution of forest reserve revenues. Sec. 106.
Annual report. Title II—Healthy Forest Management and Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Sec. 201. Purposes. Sec. 202. Definitions. Sec. 203. Hazardous fuel reduction projects and forest health projects in at-risk forests. Sec. 204. Environmental analysis. Sec. 205. State designation of high-risk areas of National Forest System and public lands. Sec. 206. Use of hazardous fuels reduction or forest health projects for high-risk areas. Sec. 207. Moratorium on use of prescribed fire in Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri, pending report.
Title III—Oregon and California Railroad Grant Lands Trust, Conservation, and Jobs Sec. 301. Short title. Sec. 302. Definitions. Subtitle A—Trust, Conservation, and Jobs Chapter 1—Creation and Terms of O&C Trust Sec. 311. Creation of O&C Trust and designation of O&C Trust lands. Sec. 312. Legal effect of O&C Trust and judicial review. Sec. 313. Board of Trustees. Sec. 314. Management of O&C Trust lands. Sec. 315. Distribution of revenues from O&C Trust lands. Sec. 316. Land exchange authority.
Sec. 317. Payments to the United States Treasury. Chapter 2—Transfer of Certain Lands to Forest Service Sec. 321. Transfer of certain Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands to Forest Service. Sec. 322. Management of transferred lands by Forest Service. Sec. 323. Management efficiencies and expedited land exchanges. Sec. 324. Review panel and old growth protection. Sec. 325. Uniqueness of old growth protection on Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands. Chapter 3—Transition Sec. 331.
Transition period and operations. Sec. 332. O&C Trust management capitalization. Sec. 333. Existing Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service contracts. Sec. 334. Protection of valid existing rights and access to non-Federal land. Sec. 335. Repeal of superseded law relating to Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands. Subtitle B—Coos Bay Wagon Roads Sec. 341. Transfer of management authority over certain Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands to Coos County, Oregon. Sec. 342. Transfer of certain Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands to Forest Service.
Sec. 343. Land exchange authority. Subtitle C—Oregon Treasures Chapter 1—Wilderness Areas Sec. 351. Designation of Devil's Staircase Wilderness. Sec. 352. Expansion of Wild Rogue Wilderness Area. Chapter 2—Wild and Scenic River Designated and Related Protections Sec. 361. Wild and scenic river designations, Molalla River. Sec. 362. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act technical corrections related to Chetco River. Sec. 363. Wild and scenic river designations, Wasson Creek and Franklin Creek.
Sec. 364. Wild and scenic river designations, Rogue River area. Sec. 365. Additional protections for Rogue River tributaries. Chapter 3—Additional Protections Sec. 371. Limitations on land acquisition. Sec. 372. Overflights. Sec. 373. Buffer zones. Sec. 374. Prevention of wildfires. Sec. 375. Limitation on designation of certain lands in Oregon. Chapter 4—Effective Date Sec. 381. Effective date. Subtitle D—Tribal Trust Lands Part 1—Council Creek Land Conveyance Sec. 391. Definitions.
Sec. 392. Conveyance. Sec. 393. Map and legal description. Sec. 394. Administration. Part 2—Oregon Coastal Land Conveyance Sec. 395. Definitions. Sec. 396. Conveyance. Sec. 397. Map and legal description. Sec. 398. Administration. Title IV—Community Forest Management Demonstration Sec. 401. Purpose and definitions. Sec. 402. Establishment of community forest demonstration areas. Sec. 403. Advisory committee. Sec. 404. Management of community forest demonstration areas. Sec. 405.
Distribution of funds from community forest demonstration area. Sec. 406. Initial funding authority. Sec. 407. Payments to United States Treasury. Sec. 408. Termination of community forest demonstration area. Title V—Reauthorization and Amendment of Existing Authorities and Other Matters Sec. 501. Extension of Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 pending full operation of Forest Reserve Revenue Areas. Sec. 502. Restoring original calculation method for 25-percent payments.
Sec. 503. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management good-neighbor cooperation with States to reduce wildfire risks. Sec. 504. Stewardship end result contracting project authority. Sec. 505. Clarification of National Forest Management Act of 1976 authority. Sec. 506. Treatment as supplemental funding. Sec. 507. Exception of certain forest projects and activities from Appeals Reform Act and other review. Sec. 508. Definition of fire suppression to include certain related activities.
Sec. 509. Prohibition on certain actions regarding Forest Service roads and trails.