Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 1691 (Introduced in Senate) — To expedite and prioritize forest management activities to achieve ecosystem restoration objectives, and for other pu... · Sec. 204

Sec. 204. Categorical exclusion to meet forest plan goals for early successional forests

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A categorical exclusion is available to the Secretary to develop and carry out a forest management activity on National Forest System land in any case in which the primary purpose of the forest management activity is to modify, improve, enhance, or create early successional forests for wildlife habitat improvement and other purposes, in accordance with the applicable forest plan. A forest management activity covered by the categorical exclusion granted by subsection

(a)may not contain harvest units exceeding a total of 5,000 acres.