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S. 2991

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To improve revegetation and carbon sequestration activities in the United States, and for other purposes.
About This Bill
Introduced
Latest Action · November 21, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594.
Congress
118th (2023–2025)
Introduced
September 28, 2023
Cosponsors (3)
0D 2R
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This bill directs federal agencies, primarily the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior, to expand tree-planting, reforestation, and rangeland restoration efforts across federal lands, with a focus on areas damaged by wildfire, mining, or other disturbances. It creates interagency task forces to assess revegetation needs, develop 10-year restoration plans, and address bottlenecks like nursery capacity and seed supply, while also establishing a workforce training pipeline through the Job Corps and new hiring authorities for graduates. The legislation supports carbon sequestration through forest management by allowing agencies to accept and use carbon credit funding, promotes mass timber use in federal construction, and funds research on invasive grass eradication, biochar, forest carbon monitoring, and wood product longevity. It also formally establishes a network of experimental forests for long-term climate research and creates a Forest Service technology transfer office to help commercialize forest product innovations. Various provisions set deadlines ranging from 60 days to 10 years for reports, plans, and pilot programs, with targeted funding caps such as $30 million for invasive grass control and $10 million annually for forest inventory work, and the bill would primarily affect federal land managers, rural communities, timber and forest product industries, and tribes and states that partner on these efforts.

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