Sec. 8304. Forest inventory and analysis
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Section 3(e) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 1642(e) ) is amended— in paragraph (1)— by striking their resources and inserting the resources of those forests, including forest carbon, ; by striking In compliance and inserting the following: In compliance ; and by adding at the end the following: Under the program under this subsection, the Secretary shall carry out, as a data collection method— a national timber products output survey; and a national woodland owner survey. ; in paragraph (3)(C), by inserting including with respect to available forest carbon data, after 2 decades, ; in paragraph (4)— in the second sentence, by striking The standards and inserting the following:
The standards described in subparagraph
(A); by striking and inserting the following: To ensure
(4)National Standards and Definitions.— To ensure ; and by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall include a clear description of the definition of forest used for purposes of reporting data from inventories and analyses of forests and the resources of forests under this subsection with— any data or report provided under the program under this subsection; Renewable Resource Assessments prepared under section 3(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1601(a) ); and any data or report provided to an entity outside the United States. ; in paragraph (6)— in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, and inserting In accordance with paragraph (7), ; and by striking subparagraphs
(D)and
(E)and inserting the following: the organization and procedures necessary to understand and report on changes in land cover and use; the organization and procedures necessary to sample and evaluate carbon-related data variables, including soil carbon, collected from forest inventory and analysis plots, timber products output surveys, and national woodland owner surveys to ensure that carbon accounting information needs can be met; and ; and by adding at the end the following: Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Secretary shall prepare an update to the strategic plan under paragraph
(6)to include— a plan to implement nationally consistent data collection protocols and procedures to improve the statistical precision of base program estimates; pathways to integrate and report on status and trends in forest carbon pools, including below-ground carbon; plans, including the identification of challenges, to collaborate with other Federal agencies, non-Federal partners, and the private sector to integrate existing nationally available data sets and best available commercial technologies, such as remote sensing, spatial analysis techniques, and other new technologies; a plan to increase transparency and clarity in reporting in accordance with paragraph (4)(C); a plan to expand current data collection, further integrate remote sensing technology, or both, to include procedures to improve the statistical precision of estimates at the sub-State level; a plan to expand current data collection, further integrate remote sensing technology, or both, to include information on renewable biomass supplies and carbon stocks at the local, State, regional, and national levels, including by ownership type; and such other matters as the Secretary determines to be appropriate based on recommendations of the Forest Inventory and Analysis National User Group. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives the update to the strategic plan prepared under subparagraph (A). Not later than 5 years after the date on which the update is submitted under subparagraph (B), and every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall— prepare an additional update to the strategic plan; and submit the additional update to the committees described in subparagraph (B). The Secretary shall ensure that data collected under this subsection is— easily accessible to all public- and private-sector entities; and collected and made accessible using means that ensure the confidentiality, in accordance with section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 7 U.S.C. 2276 ), of— plot locations; nonaggregated data of woodland owners; and nonaggregated data from timber product output survey. Biennially, the Secretary shall prepare and make publicly available a compilation of national forest inventory and analysis forest statistics, which shall be similar to the tables contained in the Renewable Resource Assessments prepared under section 3(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1601(a) ), accompanied by relevant geospatial products. The Secretary shall establish an office, a data platform, or team to process and respond to complex data requests submitted by external organizations relating to the program under this subsection. To cover the costs of processing of and responding to complex data requests described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary may impose fees on external organizations submitting the requests. Fees collected under clause
(i)may only be used for the purposes described in such clause. Each year, the Secretary shall publish as part of the forest inventory and analysis business report a detailed description of the progress of the Secretary in implementing the programmatic elements of the strategic plan described in paragraph (6), including— the costs and priorities of the strategic plan; and how the program under this subsection leverages new technology, improves and standardizes collection protocols, and increases workforce capacity. . Section 8632(1) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 ( 16 U.S.C. 1642 note; Public Law 115–334 ) is amended by striking technologies and inserting technologies, such as microwave, LiDAR, hyperspectral, and high-resolution remote sensing data, and advanced computing technologies for improved modeling to provide tabular statistical estimates and geospatial products, .
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