Utilizing timber sales on National Forest System land for extreme risk reduction

Section 14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a) is amended— (1) in subsection (d) by striking $10,000 and inserting $50,000; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (j) In the event of extreme risks to a unit of National Forest System land, including catastrophic wildfire, insect and disease outbreak, wind, hurricane, flood, drought, or to avoid impacts from such extreme events, the Secretary may, without an appraisal and under such rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary, dispose of by sale or otherwise, portions of trees, or forest products located on such unit of National Forest System lands..