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118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-912
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
SEEDLINGS FOR SUSTAINABLE HABITAT RESTORATION
ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5015]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5015) to amend the Infastructure Investment and Jobs
Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the
Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into contracts, grants, and
agreements to carry out certain ecosystem restoration activities,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration Act
of 2024.
SEC. 2. CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS TO CARRY OUT CERTAIN ECOSYSTEM RES-
TORATION ACTIVITIES.
(a) CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS.-Section 40804 of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (16 U.S.C. 6592a) is amended-
(1) in subsection (b)(9), by inserting and projects for the production of seed-
lings for ecosystem restoration after Restoration ; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
(g) CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-To carry out the ecosystem restoration activities described
in subsection (b)(9), the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the
Forest Service, may enter into contracts, grants, or agreements with eligible en-
tities for the-
(A) collection and maintenance of native seeds, including material from
managed seed orchards; and
(B) production of seedlings for revegetation.
(2) DEFINITIONS.-In this subsection:
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