A bill to provide for grants to the States to employ State foresters, to provide for a current determination of the number of woodlot owners in each State, to provide for the availability of forest fuel utilization training, and to increase the assistance and information provided by the Department of Energy to the Forest Service and by the Small Business Administration to small woodlot owners and wood fuel distributors and marketers.
Forest Fuel Utilization Act of 1979 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants through the rural forestry assistance program of the Forest Service to States for the employment of additional State foresters or equivalent State officials.
Requires the Secretary to determine the number of woodlot owners in each State. Authorizes the Secretary to make forest fuel utilization training programs available to State foresters, or equivalent State officials, in States in which forest growth is underutilized and in which there is a potential for the utilization of wood as a fuel in place of oil.
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to increase the assistance and information provided to the Forest Service by the Department of Energy; and (2) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to develop a plan to increase the managerial assistance and information provided to small woodlot owners and wood fuel distributors and marketers by the Small Business Administration.
Referred to House Committee on Small Business.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
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