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The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Sec. 3. PAYGO scorecard. Division I—Ways and Means Title I—Save American Workers Sec. 101. Short title. Sec. 102. Repeal of 30-hour threshold for classification as full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replacement with 40 hours. Title II—Hire More Heroes Sec. 201. Short title. Sec. 202. Employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration may be exempted from employer mandate under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Title III—American Research and Competitiveness Sec. 301. Short title. Sec. 302. Research credit simplified and made permanent. Sec. 303. PAYGO Scorecard. Title IV—America’s Small Business Tax Relief Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Expensing certain depreciable business assets for small business. Sec. 403. Budgetary effects. Title V—S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Sec. 501. Short title. Sec. 502. Reduced recognition period for built-in gains of S corporations made permanent.

Sec. 503. Permanent rule regarding basis adjustment to stock of S corporations making charitable contributions of property. Sec. 504. Budgetary effects. Title VI—Bonus depreciation modified and made permanent Sec. 601. Bonus depreciation modified and made permanent. Sec. 602. Budgetary effects. Title VII—Repeal of medical device excise tax Sec. 701. Repeal of medical device excise tax. Sec. 702. Budgetary effects. Division II—Financial Services Title I—Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Sec. 101.

Short title. Sec. 102. Registration and reporting exemptions relating to private equity funds advisors. Title II—Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Sec. 201. Short title. Sec. 202. Registration exemption for merger and acquisition brokers. Sec. 203. Effective date. Division III—Oversight Subdivision A—Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Sec. 101. Short title. Sec. 102. Purpose. Sec. 103. Providing for Congressional Budget Office studies on policies involving changes in conditions of grant aid.

Sec. 104. Clarifying the definition of direct costs to reflect Congressional Budget Office practice. Sec. 105. Expanding the scope of reporting requirements to include regulations imposed by independent regulatory agencies. Sec. 106. Amendments to replace Office of Management and Budget with Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sec. 107. Applying substantive point of order to private sector mandates. Sec. 108. Regulatory process and principles. Sec. 109. Expanding the scope of statements to accompany significant regulatory actions.

Sec. 110. Enhanced stakeholder consultation. Sec. 111. New authorities and responsibilities for Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sec. 112. Retrospective analysis of existing Federal regulations. Sec. 113. Expansion of judicial review. Subdivision B—Achieving Less Excess in Regulation and Requiring Transparency Sec. 100. Short title; table of contents. Title I—All Economic Regulations are Transparent Act Sec. 101. Short title. Sec. 102. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs publication of information relating to rules.

Title II—Regulatory Accountability Act Sec. 201. Short title. Sec. 202. Definitions. Sec. 203. Rule making. Sec. 204. Agency guidance; procedures to issue major guidance; presidential authority to issue guidelines for issuance of guidance. Sec. 205. Hearings; presiding employees; powers and duties; burden of proof; evidence; record as basis of decision. Sec. 206. Actions reviewable. Sec. 207. Scope of review. Sec. 208. Added definition. Sec. 209. Effective date. Title III—Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act Sec. 301.

Short title. Sec. 302. Clarification and expansion of rules covered by the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Sec. 303. Expansion of report of regulatory agenda. Sec. 304. Requirements providing for more detailed analyses. Sec. 305. Repeal of waiver and delay authority; additional powers of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy. Sec. 306. Procedures for gathering comments. Sec. 307. Periodic review of rules. Sec. 308. Judicial review of compliance with the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act available after publication of the final rule.

Sec. 309. Jurisdiction of court of appeals over rules implementing the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Sec. 310. Establishment and approval of small business concern size standards by Chief Counsel for Advocacy. Sec. 311. Clerical amendments. Sec. 312. Agency preparation of guides. Sec. 313. Comptroller General report. Title IV—Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Definitions. Sec. 403. Consent decree and settlement reform. Sec. 404.

Motions to modify consent decrees. Sec. 405. Effective date. Division IV—Judiciary Title I—Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Sec. 101. Short title. Sec. 102. Purpose. Sec. 103. Congressional review of agency rulemaking. Sec. 104. Budgetary effects of rules subject to section 802 of title 5, United States Code. Sec. 105. Government Accountability Office study of rules. Title II—Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Sec. 201. Short title. Sec. 202. Permanent moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.

Division V—Natural Resources Subdivision A—Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Sec. 100. Short title. 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.

Treatment as supplemental funding. Sec. 505. Definition of fire suppression to include certain related activities. Sec. 506. Prohibition on certain actions regarding Forest Service roads and trails. Subdivision B—National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Sec. 100. Short title. Sec. 100A. Findings. Sec. 100B. Definitions. Title I—Development of Domestic Sources of Strategic and Critical Minerals Sec. 101. Improving development of strategic and critical minerals. Sec. 102.

Responsibilities of the lead agency. Sec. 103. Conservation of the resource. Sec. 104. Federal register process for mineral exploration and mining projects. Title II—Judicial review of agency actions relating to Exploration and Mine Permits Sec. 201. Definitions for title. Sec. 202. Timely filings. Sec. 203. Right to intervene. Sec. 204. Expedition in hearing and determining the action. Sec. 205. Limitation on prospective relief. Sec. 206. Limitation on attorneys’ fees. Title III—Miscellaneous Provisions Sec. 301.

Secretarial order not affected.