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16 U.S.C. § 1011 — Watershed restoration and enhancement agreements
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**(a) In general** For fiscal year 1997 and each fiscal year thereafter, appropriations made for the Bureau of Land Management including appropriations for the Wildland Fire Management account allocated to the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs may be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of entering into cooperative agreements with the heads of other Federal agencies, tribal, State, and local governments, private and nonprofit entities, and landowners for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and the reduction of risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened that benefit these resources on public lands within the watershed.
**(b) Direct and indirect watershed agreements** The Secretary of the Interior may enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) directly with a willing private landowner; or
(2) indirectly through an agreement with a state, local, or tribal government or other public entity, educational institution, or private nonprofit organization.
**(c) Terms and conditions** In order for the Secretary to enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) the agreement shall—
(A) include such terms and conditions mutually agreed to by the Secretary and the landowner;
(B) improve the viability of and otherwise benefit the fish, wildlife, and other biotic resources on public land in the watershed;
(C) authorize the provision of technical assistance by the Secretary in the planning of management activities that will further the purposes of the agreement;
(D) provide for the sharing of costs of implementing the agreement among the Federal government,11 So in or
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**(a) In general** For fiscal year 1997 and each fiscal year thereafter, appropriations made for the Bureau of Land Management including appropriations for the Wildland Fire Management account allocated to the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs may be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of entering into cooperative agreements with the heads of other Federal agencies, tribal, State, and local governments, private and nonprofit entities, and landowners for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and the reduction of risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened that benefit these resources on public lands within the watershed.
**(b) Direct and indirect watershed agreements** The Secretary of the Interior may enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) directly with a willing private landowner; or
(2) indirectly through an agreement with a state, local, or tribal government or other public entity, educational institution, or private nonprofit organization.
**(c) Terms and conditions** In order for the Secretary to enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) the agreement shall—
(A) include such terms and conditions mutually agreed to by the Secretary and the landowner;
(B) improve the viability of and otherwise benefit the fish, wildlife, and other biotic resources on public land in the watershed;
(C) authorize the provision of technical assistance by the Secretary in the planning of management activities that will further the purposes of the agreement;
(D) provide for the sharing of costs of implementing the agreement among the Federal government,11 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. the landowner, and other entities, as mutually agreed on by the affected interests; and
(E) ensure that any expenditure by the Secretary pursuant to the agreement is determined by the Secretary to be in the public interest; and
(2) the Secretary may require such other terms and conditions as are necessary to protect the public investment on private lands, provided such terms and conditions are mutually agreed to by the Secretary and the landowner.
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**(a) Watershed restoration and enhancement agreements** For fiscal year 2006 and each fiscal year thereafter, to the extent funds are otherwise available, appropriations for the Forest Service may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose of entering into cooperative agreements with willing Federal, tribal, State and local governments, private and nonprofit entities and landowners for the protection, restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat, and other resources on public or private land, the reduction of risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened, or a combination thereof or both that benefit these resources within the watershed.
**(b) Direct and indirect watershed agreements** The Secretary of Agriculture may enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) directly with a willing private landowner; or
(2) indirectly through an agreement with a State, local or tribal government or other public entity, educational institution, or private nonprofit organization.
**(c) Terms and conditions** In order for the Secretary to enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) the agreement shall—
(A) include such terms and conditions mutually agreed to by the Secretary and the landowner, state 11 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. or local government, or private or nonprofit entity;
(B) improve the viability of and otherwise benefit the fish, wildlife, and other resources on national forests lands within the watershed;
(C) authorize the provision of technical assistance by the Secretary in the planning of management activities that will further the purposes of the agreement;
(D) provide for the sharing of costs of implementing the agreement among the Federal Governmen
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**(a) In general** In accordance with the Implementation Plan, the Secretary shall develop an annual program of work for Federal land that gives priority to authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects that provide for the protection of at-risk communities or watersheds or that implement community wildfire protection plans.
**(b) Collaboration**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall consider recommendations under subsection (a) that are made by at-risk communities that have developed community wildfire protection plans.
(2) **Exemption** — Chapter 10 of title 5 shall not apply to the planning process and recommendations concerning community wildfire protection plans.
**(c) Administration**
(1) **In general** — Federal agency involvement in developing a community wildfire protection plan, or a recommendation made in a community wildfire protection plan, shall not be considered a Federal agency action under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ([42 U.S.C. 4321](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4321&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(2) **Compliance** — In implementing authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects on Federal land, the Secretary shall, in accordance with [section 6514 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6514&num=0&edition=prelim), comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ([42 U.S.C. 4321](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4321&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
**(d) Funding allocation**
(1) **Federal land**
(A) *In general* — Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall use not less than 50 percent of the funds allocated for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the wildl
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 1009
ment when it is submitted to the Secretary of
Agriculture for approval or transmitted to the
Congress through the President.
(3) The cost of making surveys and investiga-
tions and of preparing reports concerning the
conservation and development of wildlife re-
sources shall be borne by the Secretary of the
Interior out of funds appropriated to his Depart-
ment.
(Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, § 12, as added Pub. L. 85–624,
§ 3, Aug. 12, 1958, 72 Stat. 567.)
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Sec-
retary or other official in Department of Agriculture
under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Fed-
eral Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation
System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of En-
ergy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural
Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under
section 1002 of this title.
§ 1009. Joint investigations and surveys by Sec-
retary of the Army and Secretary of Agri-
culture; reports to Congress
The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary
of Agriculture, when authorized to do so by reso-
lutions adopted by the Committee on Environ-
ment and Public Works of the Senate or the
Committee on Public Works and Transportation
of the House of Representatives, are authorized
and directed to make joint investigations and
surveys in accordance with their existing au-
thorities of watershed areas in the United
States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and
to prepare joint reports on such investigations
and surveys setting forth their recommenda-
tions for the installation of the works of im-
provement needed for flood prevention or the
conservation, development, utilization, and dis-
posal of water, and for fl
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