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Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration Act of 2025
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements to carry out certain ecosystem restoration activities, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends federal law to authorize the Forest Service to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements to support ecosystem restoration through native seed collection and seedling production. Eligible partners include state forestry agencies, nonprofit organizations, universities, Indian Tribes, and multistate coalitions. The bill allows these partnerships to focus on collecting and maintaining native seeds from managed seed orchards and producing seedlings for revegetation efforts. The law expands the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program to explicitly include seed collection, maintenance, and seedling production as eligible activities. The bill provides a mechanism to fund forest and habitat restoration through native plant propagation and distribution.
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Actions (3)
- Jan 13, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture. · house
- Aug 5, 2025 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. · house
- Aug 5, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 5, 2025
Ms. Leger Fernandez introduced the following bill; which was 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
A BILL
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements to carry out certain ecosystem restoration activities, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AGREEMENTS TO CARRY OUT CERTAIN ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION ACTIVITIES.
(a) Contracts, Grants, and Agreements.—Section 40804 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (16 U.S.C. 6592a) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(g) Contracts, Grants, and Agreements.—To carry out the ecosystem restoration activities described in subsection (b), the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, may enter into contracts, grants, or agreements with State forestry agencies, local private or nonprofit entities, institutions of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))), Indian Tribes, and multistate coalitions—
“(1) for the collection and maintenance of native seeds, including material from managed seed orchards; and
“(2) for the production of seedlings for revegetation.”.
(b) Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.—Section 4003(b)(7) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(b)(7)) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting “the collection and maintenance of native seeds for revegetation, the production of seedlings, and” after “or agreements for”;
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (D) as subparagraphs (C) through (E), respectively; and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
“(B) institutions of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)));”. <all>
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