Sec. 3. Forest and wood products data provision

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The Secretary, in collaboration with the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service and in consultation with federally recognized Indian Tribes, State Foresters, and private sector partners, shall establish a platform to provide measurement, monitoring, verification, and reporting data regarding the carbon emissions, sequestration, storage, and related atmospheric impacts of forest management and wood products. In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary shall source data, information, and analyses from Department of Agriculture programs, including— the Forest Inventory and Analysis program; the Timber Products Output survey;

Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service soil carbon estimations; Department of Agriculture entity-level guidance; the Forest Products Laboratory; the Federal Life Cycle Assessment Commons; Department of Agriculture entity-level guidelines; and other relevant programmatic data and information sources that are published and made available. The platform established by subsection

(a)shall provide tools that calculate— the above- and below-ground forest carbon stocks and stock changes associated with species composition, forest management regime, and landowner types, including small area estimations for regional and localized geographies across the United States, which shall be made available through the Forest Inventory and Analysis program updates and annual reports; the embodied carbon involved in the manufacturing of products, using data from published environmental product declarations and life cycle assessments, which shall be updated as new and more refined data becomes available; the long-term stored carbon in manufactured timber products; and the carbon displacement of wood products, compared to other materials, using substitution factors. To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall establish the platform under subsection

(a)not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.