Sec. 101. Definitions

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In this title: The term annual volume requirement , with respect to a Forest Active Management Area, means a volume of national forest materials that, subject to adjustment pursuant to section 102(e)(2), is equal to not less than 50 percent of the sustained yield of the Forest Active Management Area. In determining the volume of national forest materials or the sustained yield of a Forest Active Management Area, the Secretary may not include non-commercial post and pole sales and personal use firewood.

The term beneficiary county means a political subdivision of a State that, on account of containing National Forest System land, was eligible to receive payments for any of the fiscal years 2001 through 2015 through the State under title I of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 ( 16 U.S.C. 7111 et seq.). The term collaborative process refers to a planning, decisionmaking, and management process that, as determined by the forest manager of the unit of the National Forest System for which the process will occur and as confirmed by the Regional Forester— includes multiple interested persons representing diverse interests; and is transparent and nonexclusive or meets the requirements for a resource advisory committee under subsections

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(f)of section 205 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 ( 16 U.S.C. 7125 ). The terms covered active management project and covered project mean a project involving the management or sale of national forest materials within a Forest Active Management Area to generate forest active management revenues and achieve the annual volume requirement for the Forest Active Management Area. The term Forest Active Management Area means National Forest System land in a unit of the National Forest System designated for sustainable forest management for the production of national forest materials and forest active management revenues. Subject to subparagraph

(C)and any adjustment made pursuant to section 102(f)(3), but otherwise notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Executive orders and regulations, the Secretary shall include in Forest Active Management Areas not less than 50 percent of the National Forest System lands identified as commercial forest land capable of producing twenty cubic feet of timber per acre. A Forest Active Management Area may not include National Forest System land— that is a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; on which the removal of vegetation is specifically prohibited by Federal statute; or that is included within a National Monument as of the date of the enactment of this Act. The term forest active management revenues means revenues derived from the sale of national forest materials in a Forest Active Management Area. The term national forest materials has the meaning given that term in section 14(e)(1) of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 ( 16 U.S.C. 472a(e)(1) ). The term National Forest System has the meaning given that term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1609(a) ), except that the term does not include the National Grasslands and land utilization projects designated as National Grasslands administered pursuant to the Act of July 22, 1937 ( 7 U.S.C. 1010–1012 ). The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture. The term sustained yield means the maximum annual growth potential of a forest calculated on the basis of the culmination of mean annual increment using cubic measurement. The term State includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The term 25-percent payment means the payment to States required by the sixth paragraph under the heading of FOREST SERVICE in the Act of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat. 260; 16 U.S.C. 500 ), and section 13 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 963; 16 U.S.C. 500 ).

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