Healthy Soils and Rangelands Solutions Act

Healthy Soils and Rangelands Solutions Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to owners or operators of qualified public lands, universities, nongovernmental organizations, or Indian tribes for projects for sequestering carbon through:

• grazing practices,
• restoring degraded qualified public lands,
• application of compost on qualified public lands, or
• using biochar (carbonized biomass) as an amendment on qualified public lands.

Interior shall establish a science advisory board to furnish analysis and recommendations regarding:

• the selection of such eligible entities and activities to receive grants based on the best available science, and
• appropriate monitoring requirements to quantify project performance and communicate results.

Interior shall make grants, through a challenge competition, to eligible entities for projects to carry out innovative approaches to eligible activities.

Interior:

• may furnish technical assistance for eligible activities, and
• shall expand outreach and education respecting carbon sequestration and best practices related to those activities.