Examine legislative related barriers.
1. Evaluate scope of original intent, impacts, conflicting interpretations, and associative legislative barriers, and identify potential solutions, including practical integrations in carrying out legislation.
2. Inform decision-makers and cooperators of the effect overlaps and inefficiencies, created by multiple independent environmental laws, have on restoring and maintaining resilient landscapes.
3. Collaborate with environmental regulatory agency representatives to reduce legislative barriers to the restoration and maintenance of resilient landscapes.
4. Pursue legislative solutions to streamline and expedite fuels reduction and landscape restoration and maintenance actions and activities that are based on sound science and that enhance social, economic, and ecological vitality.
5. Develop legislation for permanent Stewardship End Result Contracting including a 20-year contract provision, a 20-year sovereign-to-sovereign (or intergovernmental) agreement authority, and expansion of the Good Neighbor Authority.
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), & Long Term (>4 years)
Other collaborators: Environmental regulatory agency reps, legislative affairs within DOI, USFS, congressional delegation, WGA, Tribes, NACO, NLC, NGOs.
