Sec. 402. Forest inventory and analysis
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To bring more innovation and efficiency to climate-resilient forestry actions in the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service— shall publish a report, or expand on a report being published pursuant to another provision of law, that demonstrates the efforts of the Forest Service— to measure a consistent historical series of field plots while using advanced technology, including remote sensing, to improve data and information; and to use advanced geospatial technologies to improve area and volume estimates, especially for sub-State regions and smaller area estimates; may use remote sensing technologies and other technologies to develop more accurate and efficient methods and to reduce costs to facilitate the measuring and monitoring of forest carbon in the United States, in a manner that can— assess landscape-scale or regional-scale carbon stocking; improve the quantity and quality of the information available to policy makers and forest managers, including with regard to forest inventories and verification activities; empower private forest owners to participate in voluntary carbon crediting opportunities; and enable— a policy maker to compare the consequences of policy options to increase climate benefits from forests; and an assessment of the effectiveness of a policy implemented to increase the climate benefits from forests; and may accelerate, or increase the frequency of, current inventories and data collection activities across all forest types to ensure consistent nationwide estimates of forest carbon pools that can reflect short-term changes from disturbances, such as wildfires, and management activities.
The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, may annually use to carry out this section not more than $10,000,000 of any amount made available to the Forest Service for research.