Sec. 203. Assessment of processed-based restoration techniques
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The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey, and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service (referred to in this subsection as the Secretaries ), shall jointly establish a pilot program to conduct research on and evaluate wetland and riparian restoration techniques. In carrying out this subsection, the Secretaries shall— assess the benefits, including to downstream infrastructure, water storage, and resilience to natural hazards, of process-based river and wetland restoration techniques when carried out at larger scales; and make available to the public the results of the assessment described in subparagraph (A).
The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, shall carry out a pilot project on the experimental forests and ranges managed by the Forest Service to evaluate biologically driven restoration.