Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial, technical, and other assistance to State foresters or equivalent State officials for: (1) the rural forestry assistance program; (2) the forestry incentive program; (3) insect and disease control; (4) urban and community forestry assistance programs; (5) fire prevention and control in rural communities and areas; (6) fire prevention and control on non-Federal forest and rural lands; (7) forest resources management and planning assistance programs; and (8) cooperative technology implementation programs.
Establishes within the Treasury of the United States a special rural fire disaster fund.
Permits the Secretary to make consolidated payments to a State in lieu of functional cost-sharing mechanisms, formulas, or agreements.
Requires annual reports to Congress on these programs.
Provides that contracts and cooperative and other agreements executed under authority of specified Acts, or portions thereof, repealed by this Act shall remain in effect until amended or terminated by provisions of law.
Makes this Act effective October 1, 1978.
Reported to House from the Committee on Agriculture with amendment, H. Rept. 95-1183.
Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.
Measure considered in House.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #343 (373-2).
Roll Call #343 (House)Measure passed House, amended, roll call #343 (373-2).
Roll Call #343 (House)Placed on calendar in Senate.
Call of calendar in Senate.
Measure considered in Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 3033.
Measure passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 3033.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendments.
House agreed to Senate amendments.
Measure enrolled in House.
Measure enrolled in Senate.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public Law 95-313.
Public Law 95-313.
Enacted as Public Law 95-313
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