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type: "LegalText"
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title: "16 U.S.C. § 6702"
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description: "Purposes"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 16
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title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_number: "86"
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chapter_name: "SOUTHWEST FOREST HEALTH AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION"
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section: "6702"
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citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6702"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 6702 - Purposes
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## Text
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The purposes of this chapter are—
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(1) to enhance the capacity to develop, transfer, apply, monitor, and regularly update practical science-based forest restoration treatments that will reduce the risk of severe wildfires, and improve the health of dry forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior West;
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(2) to synthesize and adapt scientific findings from conventional research programs to the implementation of forest and woodland restoration on a landscape scale;
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(3) to facilitate the transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge required to understand the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of wildfire on ecosystems and landscapes;
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(4) to require the Institutes established under this chapter to collaborate with Federal agencies—
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(A) to use ecological restoration treatments to reverse declining forest health and reduce the risk of severe wildfires across the forest landscape; and
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(B) to design, implement, monitor, and regularly revise representative wildfire treatments based on the use of adaptive ecosystem management;
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(5) to assist land managers in—
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(A) treating acres with restoration-based applications; and
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(B) using new management technologies (including the transfer of understandable information, assistance with environmental review, and field and classroom training and collaboration) to accomplish the goals identified in—
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(i) the National Fire Plan;
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(ii) the report entitled “Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems-A Cohesive Strategy” (65 Fed. Reg. 67480); and
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(iii) the report entitled “10-Year Comprehensive Strategy: A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment” of the Western Governors’ Association;
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(6) to provide technical assistance to collaborative efforts by affected entities to develop, implement, and monitor adaptive ecosystem management restoration treatments that are ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially responsible; and
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(7) to assist Federal and non-Federal land managers in providing information to the public on the role of fire and fire management in dry forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior West.
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(Pub. L. 108–317, § 3, Oct. 5, 2004, 118 Stat. 1205.)
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