Sec. 202. Definitions
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In this title: The term at-risk community has the meaning given that term in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6511 ). The term at-risk forest means— Federal land in condition class II or III, as those classes were developed by the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in the general technical report titled Development of Coarse-Scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management (RMRS–87) and dated April 2000 or any subsequent revision of the report; or Federal land where there exists a high risk of losing an at-risk community, key ecosystem, water supply, wildlife, or wildlife habitat to wildfire, including catastrophic wildfire and post-fire disturbances, as designated by the Secretary concerned.
The term Federal land means— land of the National Forest System (as defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1609(a) )); or public lands (as defined in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1702 )). The term does not include land— that is a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; on which the removal of vegetation is specifically prohibited by Federal statute; or that is within a National Monument as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
The term high-risk area means an area of Federal land identified under section 205 as an area suffering from the bark beetle epidemic, drought, or deteriorating forest health conditions, with the resulting imminent risk of devastating wildfires, or otherwise at high risk for bark beetle infestation, drought, or wildfire. The term Secretary concerned means— the Secretary of Agriculture, in the case of National Forest System land; and the Secretary of the Interior, in the case of public lands.
The terms hazardous fuel reduction project or forest health project mean the measures and methods developed for a project to be carried out on Federal land— in an at-risk forest under section 203 for hazardous fuels reduction, forest health, forest restoration, or watershed restoration, using ecological restoration principles consistent with the forest type where such project will occur; or in a high-risk area under section 206.
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