Title VIII: Forestry

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Establishes 3 new priorities for CFAA:

• conserving and managing working forests
• protecting and restoring forests from range of threats
• enhancing public benefits from private forests

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Requires that States assess forest-resource conditions, trends, and threats and develop long-term strategies as requirement to receive funds for CFAA programs. Assessments are to be coordinated among State forester or equivalent, State forest stewardship coordinating committee, State wildlife agency, and State technical committee. Authorizes annual appropriation of up to $10 million and up to $10 million from funds available to Forest Service State and Private Forestry to develop or update plans.

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Provides Federal matching grants to help local governmental entities, tribes, or nonprofit organizations acquire private forest land threatened by conversion to nonforest uses. Properties acquired must be maintained as forests with public access and provide community economic, environmental, recreational, or educational benefits, including being models of effective forest stewardship. Authorizes such sums as are necessary.

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Amends CFAA to update and reflect current trust territory status.

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Amends duties of State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committees to make recommendations to State foresters on development of statewide assessments and strategies regarding forest resource conditions. Adds State Technical Committee representative to committee.

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Requires portion of CFAA funds, as determined by Secretary of Agriculture, be available competitively to State foresters.

Requires Secretary to consult with new Forest Resource Coordinating Committee to determine competitive allocation of funds.

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Authorizes Secretary to competitively allocate not more than 5% of CFAA funds to support innovative national, regional, or local education, outreach, or technology projects that would increase ability of Secretary to address national priorities for private forest conservation.

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Authorizes Secretary to allow use of NFS land for reburial of human remains or cultural items that are in possession of Indian tribe or lineal descendant and that have been disinterred from NFS land or adjacent site.

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Authorizes Secretary to ensure, to maximum extent practicable, access to NFS land by Indians and Indian tribes for traditional and cultural purposes by closing the land to public access temporarily.

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Allows Secretary to provide Indian tribes trees, portions of trees, and forest products from NFS lands free of charge if used for traditional and cultural purposes and not for commercial purposes.

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Limits disclosure of information under Freedom of Information Act regarding human remains and cultural items at reburial sites, including location of sites, and information that is culturally sensitive to Indian tribes.

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All existing tribal rights, all existing agreements among tribes and Forest Service, existing trust responsibilities, and any other outstanding rights to use of NFS lands remain unaffected by new authorities in subtitle.

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Amends 1990 Farm Act to reauthorize appropriations for program through FY 2012. Authority currently used to administer biomass utilization grants.

Extended authority for Forest Service International Programs Office through 2007.

Reauthorizes through 2012.

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Allows payments to owners of nonindustrial private forest lands to carry out emergency measures to restore land after a natural disaster.

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Expands Lacey Act Amendment of 1981, which prohibits importation of illegally harvested animal and plant products, to include illegally harvested wood and wood products.

Authorized in Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 with 10-year, 30-year, or 99-year easements.

Adds permanent conservation easement option and makes available $9.75 million annually in FY 2009-12 from Commodity Credit Corporation funds.

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Modifies boundary of GMNF to include 13 designated expansion units.

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Authorizes Secretary to sell or exchange specified parcels of GMNF.

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Provides for conveyance of parcels of land from USDA's Agricultural Research Service (NM) and George Washington National Forest (VA) to private entities.

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Authorizes Secretary to cancel, redetermine rate of, or substitute index used in qualifying timber contracts and provides for time extension of existing qualified contracts.

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Authorizes competitive grants to Hispanic-serving institutions for undergraduate forestry scholarships. Authorizes such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.