Sec. 2. Water Source Protection Program
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Subtitle A of title III of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–11 ; 123 Stat. 1126) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to in this section as the Secretary ), shall establish and maintain a Water Source Protection Program (referred to in this section as the Program ) within the National Forest System west of the 100th Meridian. In carrying out the Program, the Secretary may enter into water source investment partnerships with end water users (including States, political subdivisions, Indian tribes, utilities, municipal water systems, irrigation districts, nonprofit organizations, and corporations) to protect and restore the condition of National Forest watersheds that provide water to the non-Federal partners.
A partnership described in paragraph
(1)may take the form of memoranda of understanding, cost-share or collection agreements, long-term match funding commitments, or other appropriate instruments. In carrying out the Program, the Secretary may produce a water source management plan in cooperation with the water source investment partnership participants and State, local, and tribal governments. A water source management plan may give priority to projects that facilitate the gathering of firewood for personal use pursuant to section 223.5 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations). The Secretary may conduct— a single environmental impact statement or similar analysis required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ) for all or part of the restoration projects in the water source management plan; and a statement or analysis described in subparagraph
(A)as part of the development of the water source management plan or after the finalization of the plan. In carrying out the Program, the Secretary may use the Manual on Adaptive Management of the Department of the Interior, including any associated guidance, for purposes of fulfilling any requirements under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). In carrying out the Program, the Secretary may accept and use funding, services, and other forms of investment and assistance from water source investment partnership participants to implement the water source management plan. The Secretary may accept and use investments described in subparagraph
(A)directly or indirectly through the National Forest Foundation. Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary may establish a Water Source Protection Fund to match funds or in-kind support contributed by water source investment partnership participants under subparagraph (A). The Secretary may use funds appropriated to carry out this subparagraph to make multiyear commitments, if necessary, to implement 1 or more water source investment partnership agreements. .
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Water Source Protection Program
Pub. L.Pub. L. 111-11
Stat.123 Stat. 1126
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