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Calendar No. 574
118TH CONGRESS E REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-249
A BILL TO AMEND THE TRIBAL FOREST PROTECTION
ACT OF 2004 TO IMPROVE THAT ACT, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
NOVEMBER 20, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 4370]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill,
S. 4370, bill to amend the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 to
improve that Act, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 4370 would amend the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 1
(TFPA) to expand lands and activities eligible for inclusion in the
program and provide authorization of $15 million in annual appro-
priations for each of Fiscal Years 2025 through 2030.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
In 2004, Congress passed the TFPA in response to devastating
wildfires that crossed from federal public lands onto Tribal lands
in 2002 and 2003.2 The TFPA authorizes the Secretaries of Interior
and Agriculture to enter into contracts and agreements with Tribes
to carry out Tribally-designed projects on land under the jurisdic-
tion of the United States Forest Service (USFS) or Bureau of Land
IPub. L. No. 108-278, 118 Stat. 868 (2004).
2See H.R. REP. No. 108-509 at 3 (2004) (explaining that [tlo help reduce the threat of future
tragedies, the [TFPAI sets up a process allowing Indian tribes to perform . . . forest health
projects).
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