Sec. 23002. Competitive grants for non-Federal forest landowners
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2031— $150,000,000 for the competitive grant program under section 13A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2109a ) for providing through that program a cost share to carry out climate mitigation or forest resilience practices in the case of underserved forest landowners, subject to the condition that subsection
(h)of that section shall not apply; $150,000,000 for the competitive grant program under section 13A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2109a ) for providing through that program grants to support the participation of underserved forest landowners in emerging private markets for climate mitigation or forest resilience, subject to the condition that subsection
(h)of that section shall not apply; $100,000,000 for the competitive grant program under section 13A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2109a ) for providing through that program grants to support the participation of forest landowners who own less than 2,500 acres of forest land in emerging private markets for climate mitigation or forest resilience, subject to the condition that subsection
(h)of that section shall not apply; $50,000,000 for the competitive grant program under section 13A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2109a ) to provide grants to states and other eligible entities to provide payments to owners of private forest land for implementation of forestry practices on private forest land, that are determined by the Secretary, based on the best available science, to provide measurable increases in carbon sequestration and storage beyond customary practices on comparable land, subject to the conditions that— those payments shall not preclude landowners from participation in other public and private sector financial incentive programs; and subsection
(h)of that section shall not apply; and $100,000,000 to provide grants under the wood innovation grant program under section 8643 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 ( 7 U.S.C. 7655d ), including for the construction of new facilities that advance the purposes of the program and for the hauling of material removed to reduce hazardous fuels to locations where that material can be utilized, subject to the conditions that— the amount of such a grant shall be not more than $5,000,000; and notwithstanding subsection
(d)of that section, a recipient of such a grant shall provide funds equal to not less than 50 percent of the amount received under the grant, to be derived from non-Federal sources. Any partnership agreements, including cooperative agreements and mutual interest agreements, using funds made available under this section shall be subject to a non-Federal cost-share requirement of not less than 20 percent of the project cost, which may be waived at the discretion of the Secretary. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to authorize funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for activities under this section if such funds are not expressly authorized or currently expended for such purposes.
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