Sec. 11002. Non-Federal land forest restoration and fuels reduction projects and research
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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— $2,000,000,000 to award grants to Tribal, State, or local governments or the government of the District of Columbia, regional organizations, special districts, or nonprofit organizations to support, on non-Federal land, forest restoration and resilience projects, including projects to reduce the risk of wildfires and establish defensible space around structures within at-risk communities (as defined in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6511 )); $1,000,000,000 to award grants to Tribal, State, or local governments or the government of the District of Columbia, regional organizations, special districts, or nonprofit organizations to implement community wildfire protection plans (as defined in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6511 )) in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act, purchase firefighting equipment, provide firefighter training, and increase the capacity for planning, coordinating, and monitoring projects on non-Federal land to protect at-risk communities (as defined in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6511 )); $250,000,000 to award grants to Tribal, State, or local governments or the government of the District of Columbia, regional organizations, special districts, or nonprofit organizations for projects on non-Federal land to aid in the recovery and rehabilitation of burned forested areas, including reforestation; $175,000,000 to award grants to Tribal, State, or local governments or the government of the District of Columbia, regional organizations, special districts, or nonprofit organizations for projects on non-Federal land to expand equitable outdoor access and promote tourism on non-Federal forested land for members of underserved groups; $150,000,000 for the State Fire Assistance and Volunteer Fire Assistance programs established pursuant to section 10(b) of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2106(b) ) to be distributed at the discretion of the Secretary; $150,000,000 for the implementation of State-wide forest resource strategies under section 2A of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2101a ); $250,000,000 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; $250,000,000 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; $250,000,000 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; $500,000,000 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; $50,000,000 for the forest inventory and analysis program established under section 3(e) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 1642(e) ) for activities and tactics to accelerate and expand existing research efforts to improve forest carbon monitoring technologies to better predict changes in forest carbon due to climate change; $100,000,000 for the forest inventory and analysis program established under section 3(e) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 1642(e) ) to carry out recommendations from a panel of relevant experts convened by the Secretary that has reviewed and, based on the review, issued recommendations regarding the current priorities and future needs of the forest inventory and analysis program with respect to climate change, forest health, sustainable wood products, and increasing carbon storage in forests; $50,000,000 for the forest inventory and analysis program established under section 3(e) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 1642(e) ) to provide enhancements to the technology managed and used by the forest inventory and analysis program, including cloud computing and remote sensing for purposes such as small area estimation; $775,000,000 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, subject to the conditions that the amount of such a grant shall be not more than $5,000,000; 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; and a priority shall be placed on projects that create a financial model for addressing forest restoration needs on public or private forest land; and $50,000,000 for the research mission area of the Forest Service to carry out greenhouse gas life cycle analyses of domestic wood products. The Secretary may use amounts made available by this section to carry out eligible projects as determined by the Secretary, authorized in subsection
(a)on non-Federal land upon the request of the Governor of that State, or, in the case of the District of Columbia, the Mayor. 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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