Sec. 6. Eastside forest scientific and technical advisory panel
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Not later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary selects the covered area, the Secretary shall establish an advisory panel— to be known as the Eastside Forest Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel ; and to advise the Secretary, collaborative groups, and the public regarding the development and implementation of— goals to improve forest health, watershed health, and related social and economic goals in the covered area; and projects needed to accomplish the purposes of this Act.
The advisory panel shall be composed of 9 members, each of whom shall have expertise in 1 or more of the following: Silviculture. Timber economics. Road and logging engineering. Soil science and geology. Ecosystem services or natural resources economics. Community economics or ecosystem workforce development. Forest ecology. Aquatic and riparian ecology. Wildlife ecology. Fish Ecology. Ecological restoration. Invasive species control and eradication. Wildland fire. Hydrology.
Forest carbon life-cycle and sequestration. Social science. The Secretary shall— ensure that the advisory panel includes experts in a broad array of the fields described in subsection (b); and give consideration to the recommendations of institutions of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))), professional societies, and other interested organizations and persons. Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Secretary appoints the members of the advisory panel, the advisory panel, after considering the best available science and information, shall submit to the Secretary and make available to the public a report that contains recommendations regarding the manner by which the Secretary may best achieve the purposes and goals and consider the opportunities described in section 4(b).
The report shall provide recommendations based on the best available science— for the size and scope of projects needed to accomplish the goals and consider the opportunities described in section 4(b); for increasing local capacity to accomplish the goals and consider the opportunities described in section 4(b); for hydrologically and ecologically restoring land and water by— decommissioning unnecessary and undesirable roads; and reducing the environmental impact of necessary and desirable roads; and for each relevant plant association group— for protecting and restoring terrestrial, aquatic, riparian, wildlife, fish, vegetation, soil, carbon, and other resources; for the types of activities necessary and desirable to restore forest health and watershed health (including thinning, prescribed, and natural fire, and other appropriate activities); for cases in which the cutting or removal of trees described in section 4(e)(1) would generally be considered to be ecologically appropriate; and for cases in which the cutting or removal of trees described in section 4(e)(2)(C) would generally be considered to be ecologically appropriate.
To the maximum extent practicable, the advisory panel shall achieve a consensus with respect to each recommendation included in the report. If the advisory panel fails to achieve a consensus with respect to any recommendation included in the report, the report shall include each dissenting opinion relating to the recommendation. Not later than 5 years after the date on which the Secretary appoints the members of the advisory panel, the advisory panel shall submit to the Secretary and make available to the public a report providing— a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the status of, and changes to, forest health and watershed health in the covered area, including the resiliency, aquatic function, and plant composition, structure, and function; and an assessment of the implementation of the recommendations made under paragraph (1).
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