Sec. 8103. Forest and wood products carbon provision
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The Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, in collaboration with the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, State foresters, and private sector partners, and in consultation with Indian Tribes, shall establish a publicly available platform to provide measurement, monitoring, verification, and reporting of 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, including the Timber Products Output Survey;
Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service soil carbon estimations; the Forest Products Laboratory; the Federal Life Cycle Assessment Commons; Department of Agriculture entity-level guidelines and subsequent revisions; and other relevant programmatic data, emerging science, and information sources that are published and made available by the Department of Agriculture. 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. The platform established by subsection
(a)shall be distinct from the database established under subsection (f)(1)(A) of section 3 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 1642 ). There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.
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