Bill > S3046

This bill, the Root and Stem Project Authorization Act of 2022, codifies the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain landscape-scale forest restoration projects. The key provisions include: 1) allowing the Secretaries to enter into agreements with non-federal third-party contractors to conduct project analyses, 2) allowing the Secretaries to use any receipts generated by the projects to repay the initial funding provided by the non-federal party, 3) granting the Secretaries the authority to noncompetitively hire contractors from a pre-approved list to conduct the project analyses, and 4) setting a sunset date of January 1, 2033 for the bill's requirements and authority. The bill aims to facilitate collaborative, community-driven forest restoration projects on federal lands.