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America’s Revegetation and Carbon Sequestration Act of 2024

Introduced: September 28, 2023 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 21, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594.
Nov 21, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Nov 19, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Oct 25, 2023
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
Sep 28, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Sep 28, 2023
Introduced in Senate
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America’s Revegetation and Carbon Sequestration Act of 2024

This bill requires various actions to address revegetation and promote the use of forest products.

Among other provisions, the bill requires the Forest Service to continue its experimental forests and ranges network.

The bill requires the Department of Labor to develop a career and technical education and training program focused on tree planting and revegetation, tree maintenance, nursery management, or seed collection as part of the Job Corps program.

The Department of the Interior must establish a pilot program to establish native trees, shrubs, or grasses on mined land. 

The bill authorizes the Forest Service to expend funds received from a nonfederal entity as a carbon credit to conduct forest revegetation activity that reduces greenhouse gases.

Interior and the Forest Service must jointly develop and implement an action plan to map, treat, and control invasive grasses.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA), in coordination with the Department of Energy, must expand research relating to the use of wood for various purposes, including renewable fuel and mass timber.

The bill establishes an Office of Technology Transfer in the Forest Service.

USDA must establish an innovation voucher pilot program to accelerate product development, demonstration, and commercialization in the forest products sector.

The Forest Products Laboratory of the Forest Service must establish a mass timber science and education program.

The bill designates, upon acquisition by the United States, approximately 2,693 acres of land within the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia as the Patsye Crites Forest.

What's happening now November 21, 2024

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 5575 Related bill A bill to designate the Patsye Crites Forest.
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 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 2 Independent 1
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Sep 28, 2023
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King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · Sep 28, 2023
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Marshall, Roger
Kansas · Sep 28, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2991: America’s Revegetation and Carbon Sequestration Act of 2024. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2991/
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"S. 2991: America’s Revegetation and Carbon Sequestration Act of 2024." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2991/.
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