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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 4302 (Introduced in House) — To address the bark beetle epidemic, to reduce catastrophic wildfires in the highest risk areas, to restore and impro... · Sec. 304

Sec. 304. Selection and implementation of landscape-scale forest restoration projects

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The Secretary of Agriculture shall select, in accordance with this section, landscape-scale forest restoration projects— to implement on National Forest System land; and if applicable, to implement on land adjoining National Forest System land, in coordination with other Federal and non-Federal entities. The project selected under to subsection
(a)shall be based on a landscape assessment that shall cover a landscape of— not less than 100,000 acres, except as provided in subparagraph
(B)and (C); not less than 80,000 acres, if— the assessment is completed or substantially completed on the date of the enactment of this Act; and the Secretary determines that assessing a larger area is not necessary to restore the integrity, resilience, and fire regimes of the landscape; or not less than 50,000 acres in the case of a project that is carried out east of the one-hundredth meridian. To be eligible for selection and implementation under subsection (a), a landscape-scale forest restoration project shall satisfy the following requirements: Restore the ecological integrity and ecological resilience of terrestrial and aquatic areas that have departed from reference conditions within the forest landscape. Restore appropriate natural fire regimes, including by reducing fuel loads and modifying forest structure in areas that have departed from reference conditions. Conduct wildfire risk reduction activities within the wildland-urban interface to the extent that the project includes lands within the wildland-urban interface.
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