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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-204
NATIONAL FOREST RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION
ACT
DECEMBER 7, 2021.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, from the Committee on Agriculture,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4489]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 4489) to amend the Act of June 20, 1958, to require that cer-
tain amounts collected by the United States with respect to lands
under the administration of the Forest Service be invested into in-
terest bearing obligations, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
BRIEF EXPLANATION
This legislation, as reported out of Committee, requires that
funds received from settlements related to lands under administra-
tion of the Forest Service be invested into interest bearing accounts
and makes funding in excess of the amount needed to perform
work necessitated by the settlement available to be used to cover
other work specified. This bill also includes assessment and res-
toration as eligible purposes for the use of funds received from set-
tlements.
PURPOSE AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred the Nation's forest reserves
to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and cre-
ated the United States Forest Service from USDA's Bureau of For-
estry. Subsequent legislation has further defined how the agency
must manage those lands.
The Forest Service is required to oversee remediation and res-
toration of National Forest System lands that are damaged by
human-caused wildfire and mining. Forest Service officials may
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