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16 U.S.C. § 6591e — Stewardship end result contracting projects
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Chief** — The term “Chief” means the Chief of the Forest Service.
(2) **Director** — The term “Director” means the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
**(b) Projects** The Chief and the Director, via agreement or contract as appropriate, may enter into stewardship contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests and the public lands that meet local and rural community needs.
**(c) Land management goals** The land management goals of a project under subsection (b) may include any of the following:
(1) Road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality.
(2) Soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries, or other resource values.
(3) Setting of prescribed fires to improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of stands or to improve wildlife habitat.
(4) Removing vegetation or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce fire hazards, or achieve other land management objectives.
(5) Watershed restoration and maintenance.
(6) Restoration and maintenance of wildlife and fish.
(7) Control of noxious and exotic weeds and reestablishing native plant species.
**(d) Agreements or contracts**
(1) **Procurement procedure** — A source for performance of an agreement or contract under subsection (b) shall be selected on a best-value basis, including consideration of source under other public and private agreements or contracts.
(2) **Contract for sale of property** — A contract entered into under this section may, at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be considered a contract for the sale of property under such terms as the Secretary may pres
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Chief** — The term “Chief” means the Chief of the Forest Service.
(2) **Director** — The term “Director” means the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
**(b) Projects** The Chief and the Director, via agreement or contract as appropriate, may enter into stewardship contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests and the public lands that meet local and rural community needs.
**(c) Land management goals** The land management goals of a project under subsection (b) may include any of the following:
(1) Road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality.
(2) Soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries, or other resource values.
(3) Setting of prescribed fires to improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of stands or to improve wildlife habitat.
(4) Removing vegetation or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce fire hazards, or achieve other land management objectives.
(5) Watershed restoration and maintenance.
(6) Restoration and maintenance of wildlife and fish.
(7) Control of noxious and exotic weeds and reestablishing native plant species.
**(d) Agreements or contracts**
(1) **Procurement procedure** — A source for performance of an agreement or contract under subsection (b) shall be selected on a best-value basis, including consideration of source under other public and private agreements or contracts.
(2) **Contract for sale of property** — A contract entered into under this section may, at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be considered a contract for the sale of property under such terms as the Secretary may prescribe without regard to any other provision of law.
(3) **Term**
(A) *In general* — Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the Chief and the Director may enter into a contract under subsection (b) in accordance with [section 3903 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section3903&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Maximum* — The period of the contract under subsection (b) may exceed 5 years but may not exceed 10 years.
(4) **Offsets**
(A) *In general* — The Chief and the Director may apply the value of timber or other forest products removed as an offset against the cost of services received under the agreement or contract described in subsection (b).
(B) *Methods of appraisal* — The value of timber or other forest products used as an offset under subparagraph (A)—
(i) shall be determined using appropriate methods of appraisal commensurate with the quantity of products to be removed; and
(ii) may—
(I) be determined using a unit of measure appropriate to the contracts; and
(II) may include valuing products on a per-acre basis.
(5) **Relation to other laws** — Notwithstanding subsections (d) and (g) of [section 472a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section472a&num=0&edition=prelim), the Chief may enter into an agreement or contract under subsection (b). Notwithstanding the Materials Act of 1947 ([30 U.S.C. 602(a)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section602/a&num=0&edition=prelim)),11 See References in Text note below. the Director may enter into an agreement or contract under subsection (b).
(6) **Contracting officer** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary or the Secretary of the Interior may determine the appropriate contracting officer to enter into and administer an agreement or contract under subsection (b).
(7) **Fire liability provisions** — Not later than 90 days after February 7, 2014, the Chief shall issue for use in all contracts and agreements under this section fire liability provisions that are in substantially the same form as the fire liability provisions contained in—
(A) integrated resource timber contracts, as described in the Forest Service contract numbered 2400–13, part H, section H.4; and
(B) timber sale contracts conducted pursuant to [section 472a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section472a&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(e) Receipts**
(1) **In general** — The Chief and the Director may collect monies from an agreement or contract under subsection (b) if the collection is a secondary objective of negotiating the contract that will best achieve the purposes of this section.
(2) **Use** — Monies from an agreement or contract under subsection (b)—
(A) may be retained by the Chief and the Director; and
(B) shall be available for expenditure without further appropriation at the project site from which the monies are collected or at another project site.
(3) **Relation to other laws**
(A) *In general* — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the value of services received by the Chief or the Director under a stewardship contract project conducted under this section, and any payments made or resources provided by the contractor, Chief, or Director shall not be considered monies received from the National Forest System or the public lands.
(B) *Knutson-Vanderberg 22 So in original. Probably should be “Knutson-Vandenberg”. Act* — The Act of June 9, 1930 (commonly known as the “Knutson-Vanderberg 2 Act”) ([16 U.S.C. 576](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section576&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) shall not apply to any agreement or contract under subsection (b).
**(f) Costs of removal** Notwithstanding the fact that a contractor did not harvest the timber, the Chief may collect deposits from a contractor covering the costs of removal of timber or other forest products under—
(1) [section 490 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section490&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(2) [section 498 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section498&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(g) Performance and payment guarantees**
(1) **In general** — The Chief and the Director may require performance and payment bonds under sections 28.103–2 and 28.103–3 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, in an amount that the contracting officer considers sufficient to protect the investment in receipts by the Federal Government generated by the contractor from the estimated value of the forest products to be removed under a contract under subsection (b).
(2) **Excess offset value** — If the offset value of the forest products exceeds the value of the resource improvement treatments, the Chief and the Director may—
(A) use the excess to satisfy any outstanding liabilities for cancelled agreements or contracts; or
(B) if there are no outstanding liabilities described in subparagraph (A), apply the excess to other authorized stewardship projects.
**(h) Cancellation ceilings**
(1) **In general** — Notwithstanding [section 3903(b)(1) of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section3903/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the Chief and the Director may obligate funds in stages that are economically or programmatically viable to cover any potential cancellation or termination costs for an agreement or contract under subsection (b).
(2) **Advance notice to Congress of cancellation ceiling in excess of $25,000,000** — Not later than 30 days before entering into a multiyear agreement or contract under subsection (b) that includes a cancellation ceiling in excess of $25,000,000, but does not include proposed funding for the costs of cancelling the agreement or contract up to that cancellation ceiling, the Chief or the Director, as applicable, shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a written notice that includes—
(A) a description of the cancellation ceiling amounts proposed for each program year in the agreement or contract;
(B) the reasons why the cancellation ceiling amounts described under subparagraph (A) were selected;
(C) a description of the extent to which the costs of contract cancellation are not included in the budget for the agreement or contract; and
(D) an assessment of the financial risk of not including budgeting for the costs of agreement or contract cancellation.
(3) **Transmittal of notice to OMB** — Not later than 14 days after the date on which written notice is provided under paragraph (2), the Chief or the Director, as appropriate, shall transmit a copy of the notice to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
**(i) Monitoring and evaluation**
(1) **In general** — The Chief and the Director shall establish a multiparty monitoring and evaluation process that accesses the stewardship contracting projects conducted under this section.
(2) **Participants** — Other than the Chief and Director, participants in the process described in paragraph (1) may include—
(A) any cooperating governmental agencies, including tribal governments; and
(B) any other interested groups or individuals.
**(j) Reporting** Not later than 1 year after February 7, 2014, and annually thereafter, the Chief and the Director shall submit to the congressional committees described in subsection (h)(2) a report on—
(1) the status of development, execution, and administration of agreements or contracts under subsection (b);
(2) the specific accomplishments that have resulted; and
(3) the role of local communities in the development of agreements or contract plans.
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**(a) Authorization; rules and regulations; appraised value as minimum sale price** For the purpose of achieving the policies set forth in the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 215; [16 U.S.C. 528–531](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section528–531&num=0&edition=prelim)) and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 476) [[16 U.S.C. 1600](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1600&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may sell, at not less than appraised value, trees, portions of trees, or forest products located on National Forest System lands.
**(b) Designation on map; prospectus** All advertised timber sales shall be designated on maps, and a prospectus shall be available to the public and interested potential bidders.
**(c) Terms and conditions of contract** The length and other terms of the contract shall be designed to promote orderly harvesting consistent with the principles set out in section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 1604](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1604&num=0&edition=prelim)]. Unless there is a finding by the Secretary of Agriculture that better utilization of the various forest resources (consistent with the provisions of the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 [[16 U.S.C. 528–531](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section528–531&num=0&edition=prelim)]) will result, sales contracts shall be for a period not to exceed ten years: Provided, That such period may be adjusted at the discretion of the Secreta
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Without altering in any way the meaning of the following terms as used in any other statute, whether or not such statute is referred to in, or amended by, this Act, as used in this Act—
**(a)** The term “areas of critical environmental concern” means areas within the public lands where special management attention is required (when such areas are developed or used or where no development is required) to protect and prevent irreparable damage to important historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources or other natural systems or processes, or to protect life and safety from natural hazards.
**(b)** The term “holder” means any State or local governmental entity, individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business entity receiving or using a right-of-way under subchapter V of this chapter.
**(c)** The term “multiple use” means the management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions; the use of some land for less than all of the resources; a combination of balanced and diverse resource uses that takes into account the long-term needs of future generations for renewable and nonrenewable resources, including, but not limited to, recreation, range, timber, minerals, watershed, wildlife and fish, and natural scenic, scientific and historical values; and harmonious and coordinated management of the various resources without permanent impairment of the productivity of the land and the qual
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On or after June 30, 1914, all moneys received as contributions toward cooperative work in forest investigations, or the protection, management, and improvement of the National Forest System, shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, for the payment of the expenses of said investigations, protection, management, or improvements by the Forest Service, and for refunds to the contributors of amounts heretofore or hereafter paid in by them in excess of their share of the cost of said investigations, protection, management, or improvements. Payment for work undertaken pursuant to this section may be made from any appropriation of the Forest Service that is available for similar work if a written agreement so provides and reimbursement will be provided by a cooperator in the same fiscal year as the expenditure by the Forest Service. A reimbursement received from a cooperator that covers the proportionate share of the cooperator of the cost of the work shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of the Forest Service from which the payment was initially made or, if the appropriation is no longer available, to the credit of an appropriation of the Forest Service that is available for similar work. The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish written rules that establish criteria to be used to determine whether the acceptance of contributions of money under this section would adversely affect the ability of an officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture to carry out a duty or program of the officer or employee in a fair and objective manner or would compromise, or appear to compromise, the integrity of the program, officer, or empl
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**(a) Definition.—** In this section, a multiyear contract is a contract for the purchase of property or services for more than one, but not more than 5, program years.
**(b) Authority To Enter Into Contract.—** An executive agency may enter into a multiyear contract for the acquisition of property or services if—
(1) funds are available and obligated for the contract, for the full period of the contract or for the first fiscal year in which the contract is in effect, and for the estimated costs associated with a necessary termination of the contract; and
(2) the executive agency determines that—
(A) the need for the property or services is reasonably firm and continuing over the period of the contract; and
(B) a multiyear contract will serve the best interests of the Federal Government by encouraging full and open competition or promoting economy in administration, performance, and operation of the agency’s programs.
**(c) Termination Clause.—** A multiyear contract entered into under the authority of this section shall include a clause that provides that the contract shall be terminated if funds are not made available for the continuation of the contract in a fiscal year covered by the contract. Funds available for paying termination costs shall remain available for that purpose until the costs associated with termination of the contract are paid.
**(d) Cancellation Ceiling Notice.—** Before a contract described in subsection (b) that contains a clause setting forth a cancellation ceiling in excess of $10,000,000 may be awarded, the executive agency shall give written notification of the proposed contract and of the proposed cancellation ceiling for that contract to Congress. The contract may not be awarded until the end of the 30-day period beginning on th
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The purposes of this chapter are—
(1) to reduce wildfire risk to communities, municipal water supplies, and other at-risk Federal land through a collaborative process of planning, prioritizing, and implementing hazardous fuel reduction projects;
(2) to authorize grant programs to improve the commercial value of forest biomass (that otherwise contributes to the risk of catastrophic fire or insect or disease infestation) for producing electric energy, useful heat, transportation fuel, and petroleum-based product substitutes, and for other commercial purposes;
(3) to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape;
(4) to promote systematic gathering of information to address the impact of insect and disease infestations and other damaging agents on forest and rangeland health;
(5) to improve the capacity to detect insect and disease infestations at an early stage, particularly with respect to hardwood forests; and
(6) to protect, restore, and enhance forest ecosystem components—
(A) to promote the recovery of threatened and endangered species;
(B) to improve biological diversity; and
(C) to enhance productivity and carbon sequestration.
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Purchasers of national-forest timber may be required by the Secretary of Agriculture to deposit the estimated cost to the United States of disposing of brush and other debris resulting from their cutting operations, such deposits to be covered into the Treasury and constitute a special fund, which is appropriated and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That any deposits in excess of the amount expended for disposals shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest-reserve fund, to be credited to the receipts of the year in which such transfer is made.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to establish forest tree nurseries and do all other things needful in preparation for planting on national forests on the scale possible under the appropriations authorized by [section 576a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section576a&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to restrict the authority of the said Secretary under other authority of law.
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The Secretary, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may dispose of mineral materials (including but not limited to common varieties of the following: sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, cinders, and clay) and vegetative materials (including but not limited to yucca, manzanita, mesquite, cactus, and timber or other forest products) on public lands of the United States, including, for the purposes of this subchapter, land described in subchapter V of chapter 28 of title 43, if the disposal of such mineral or vegetative materials (1) is not otherwise expressly authorized by law, including, but not limited to, subchapter I of chapter 8A of title 43, and the United States mining laws, and (2) is not expressly prohibited by laws of the United States, and (3) would not be detrimental to the public interest. Such materials may be disposed of only in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and upon the payment of adequate compensation therefor, to be determined by the Secretary: Provided, however, That, to the extent not otherwise authorized by law, the Secretary is authorized in his discretion to permit any Federal, State, or Territorial agency, unit or subdivision, including municipalities, or any association or corporation not organized for profit, to take and remove, without charge, materials and resources subject to this subchapter, for use other than for commercial or industrial purposes or resale. Where the lands have been withdrawn in aid of a function of a Federal department or agency other than the department headed by the Secretary or of a State, Territory, county, municipality, water district or other local governmental subdivision or agency, the Secretary may make disposals under this subchapter only with the consent of such other Feder
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The Secretary of Agriculture, under such regulations as he may prescribe and at rates and for periods not exceeding thirty years as determined by him, is authorized to permit the use by public and private agencies, corporations, firms, associations, or individuals, of structures or improvements under the administrative control of the Forest Service and land used in connection therewith: Provided, That as all or a part of the consideration for permits issued under this section, the Secretary may require the permittees at their expense to renovate, recondition, improve, and maintain the structures and land to a satisfactory standard.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 572a
as ‘‘Cooperative work, Forest Service,’’ see section 1321
of Title 31, Money and Finance.
§ 572a. Deposits from timber purchasers to de-
fray cost of scaling services
The Forest Service may accept money from
timber purchasers for deposit into the Treasury
in the trust account, ‘‘Forest Service coopera-
tive fund’’, which moneys are made available for
scaling services requested by purchasers in addi-
tion to those required by the Forest Service, and
for refunds of amounts deposited in excess of the
cost of such work.
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 210, 58 Stat. 737.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as a part of the Department of
Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.
§ 573. Repealed. Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 17(a), 64
Stat. 87
Section, act May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 1, 46 Stat. 387, re-
lated to water supply and sanitary systems.
§ 574. Damages caused private property in pro-
tection, administration, and improvement of
national forests; reimbursement
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to
reimburse owners of private property for dam-
age or destruction thereof caused by employees
of the United States in connection with the pro-
tection, administration, or improvement of the
national forests, payment to be made from any
funds appropriated for the protection, adminis-
tration, and improvement of the national for-
ests: Provided, That no payment in excess of
$2,500 shall be made on any such claim.
(May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 2, 46 Stat. 387; Pub. L.
87–869, § 8, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1962—Pub. L. 87–869 increased from $500 to $2,500 the
authorization for reimbursement of owners of private
property for damages caused in protection, administra-
tion, an
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