Sec. 8203. 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 Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 , the Secretary shall designate treatment areas on at least 1 national forest in each State, if requested by the Governor of the State, that the Secretary determines, based on annual forest health surveys, are experiencing declining forest health due to insect or disease infestation. The Secretary may carry out treatments to address the insect or disease infestation in the areas designated under subsection
(a)in accordance with sections 104, 105, 106, and 401. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018. . Section 407 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (as redesignated by subsection (b)(1)) is amended by striking 2008 and inserting 2018 .
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