Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act of 2021
- Last Action
- 6/15/2021
Actions
- 2021-06-15Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- 2021-06-10Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- 2021-06-10Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- 2021-04-20Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
- 2021-04-20Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
- 2021-04-20Introduced in House
- 2021-04-20Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2021-04-20 (00)
Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act of 2021
This bill establishes and provides funding for the Restoration and Resilience Grant Program and the Restoration and Resilience Partnership Program.
The bill establishes a Restoration Fund Advisory Council to provide advice to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) respecting the grant program.
The grant program shall provide grants to eligible entities (e.g., a state agency, a unit of local government, or a tribal government) for purposes such as (1) increasing the capacity for planning, coordinating, and monitoring restoration and resilience projects on federal land and nonfederal land; or (2) restoration and resilience projects on nonfederal land.
Under the Restoration and Resilience Partnership Program, USDA shall carry out restoration and resilience projects that reduce wildfire potential, improve community resilience in the wildland-urban interface, or restore wildlife habitat.
Cosponsors (14)
- MICHAEL SIMPSON (R-ID)
- Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ)
- Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
- Dina Titus (D-NV)
- Mark Takano (D-CA)
- Kim Schrier (D-WA)
- Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
- BARBARA LEE (D-CA)
- Marilyn Strickland (D-WA)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- Kaiali'i Kahele (D-HI)
- Scott Peters (D-CA)
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Appropriations
- Congressional oversight
- Department of the Interior
- Ecology
- Economic development
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government trust funds
- Land use and conservation
- Pest management
- Watersheds
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
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