United StatesPost-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
What it does
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to carry out a program for post-disaster reforestation and restoration.
More detail
Interior must identify covered lands requiring reforestation and restoration following unplanned disturbances that are unlikely to experience natural regeneration without assistance. Covered land means (1) any federal land or interest in land administered by the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Forest Service, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and (2) any Indian Forest Land or Rangeland.
Interior must propose a list that prioritizes projects for reforestation and restoration for each fiscal year. Interior may (1) carry out priority projects through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements; and (2) support any grant contract or cooperative agreement that may be necessary to ensure adequate and appropriate seed and seedling availability to further the objectives of priority projects.
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- Passed House
- Passed Senate
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History
- 2026
- Mar 17Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.Latest
- Mar 16Mr. Wittman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Mar 16Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2524-2525)
- Mar 16DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 528.
- Mar 16Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2524)Passed House
- Mar 16Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025
- Sep 15Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-276, Part I.
- Sep 15Committee on Agriculture discharged.Minor
- Sep 15Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 232.
- Jul 23Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Jul 23Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Apr 29Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Apr 23Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Jan 16Introduced in House
- Jan 16Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.Introduced