PUBLIC LAWS

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393) is an Act designed to:

"... restore stability and predictability to the annual payments made to States and counties containing National Forest System lands and public domain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management for use by the counties for the benefit of public schools, roads, and other purposes."
Oct. 30, 2000 [H.R. 2389]
The purposes of this Act are as follows:

(1) To stabilize payments to counties to provide funding for schools and roads that supplements other available funds.

(2) To make additional investments in, and create additional employment opportunities through, projects that improve the maintenance of existing infrastructure, implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems, and restore and improve land health and water qualify. Such projects shall enjoy broad-based support with objectives that may include, but are not limited to—

(A) road, trail, and infrastructure maintenance or obliteration;
(B) soil productivity improvement;
(C) improvement in forest ecosystem health;
(D) watershed restoration and maintenance;
(E) restoration, maintenance and improvement of wildlife and fish habitat;
(F) control of noxious and exotic weeds; and
(G) reestablishment of native species.

(3) To improve cooperative relationships among the people that use and care for Federal lands and the agencies that manage these lands.”