Bill > S4877

This bill, the Civilian Conservation Center Enhancement Act of 2022, would amend Public Law 91-378 to authorize activities relating to Civilian Conservation Centers (CCCs), which are residential workforce development or training facilities for disadvantaged youth operated by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture on federal land. The key provisions of the bill include: establishing specialized training programs at CCCs focused on forestry, rangeland management, wildland firefighting, and other related topics; authorizing the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to carry out experimental, research, or demonstration pilots to provide career and technical education curricula and course offerings at CCCs; setting recruitment goals for hiring CCC graduates for wildland firefighting and other critical workforce needs; providing direct hire authority for the Secretaries to appoint CCC graduates to certain positions; and establishing a pilot program to employ CCC students to improve and expand federal government-owned housing for wildland firefighters and other agency employees.