Legacy Roads and Trails Act
Summary
Legacy Roads and Trails Act This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program. Specifically, under the program, the Forest Service, taking into account predicted changes in weather and hydrology related to global climate change, shall carry out storm damage risk reduction, including deferred maintenance, repairs, road and trail relocation, and associated activities on roads, trails, tunnels, and bridges under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service; restore waterways and natural migration of fish and other aquatic species by removing or replacing culverts or other infrastructure from such waterways; and decommission unneeded roads. In implementing the program, the Forest Service shall give priority to projects that protect or restore water quality and watershed function; a watershed that supplies a public drinking water system; the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or sensitive fish or wildlife species, or a species of conservation concern; or a watershed for which the Forest Service has completed a watershed protection and restoration action plan. The Forest Service shall identify the minimum road system needed for each unit of the National Forest System. USDA shall review, and may revise, an identification of the minimum road system in accordance with federal regulations relating to the administration of the forest transportation system.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Apr 22, 2021
Last action Jul 13, 2021
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
1
Committee
5
Jul 13, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
lower
Jun 21, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
lower
Jun 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
lower
Jun 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
lower
Apr 22, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Apr 22, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 11 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kim Schrier
DDemocratic
Co
Alan S. Lowenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Ann M. Kuster
DDemocratic
Co
Derek Kilmer
DDemocratic
Co
Earl Blumenauer
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Jared Huffman
DDemocratic
Co
Joe Neguse
DDemocratic
Co
John P. Sarbanes
DDemocratic
Co
Katie Porter
DDemocratic
Co
Marilyn Strickland
DDemocratic
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