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118TH CONGRESS J REPT. 118-168
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
TREATING TRIBES AND COUNTIES AS GOOD NEIGHBORS
ACT
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on
Agriculture, submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1450]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 1450) to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to modify the
treatment of revenue from timber sale contracts and certain pay-
ments made by counties to the Secretary of Agriculture and the
Secretary of the Interior under good neighbor agreements, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
BRIEF EXPLANATION
This legislation, as reported out of Committee, makes certain
technical corrections to the Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) to pro-
vide counties and Tribes, in addition to States, the authority to re-
tain timber sale revenues derived from GNA agreements and to use
such revenues on forest restoration projects on county or Tribal
land.
PURPOSE AND NEED
GNA agreements allow the Forest Service (FS) and Bureau of
Land Management to authorize states, counties, and federally rec-
ognized Tribes to conduct federal forest restoration and manage-
ment activities. Through these cooperative agreements, partners
have reduced hazardous fuels and wildfire risk, improved species
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