Empowering the Forest Service to address workforce housing needs

(a) Use of Forest Service structures or improvements Section 7 of the Act of April 24, 1950 (commonly known as the Granger-Thye Act) (64 Stat. 84, chapter 97; 16 U.S.C. 580d), is amended by striking thirty years as determined by him and inserting 30 years, or in the case of a permit for workforce housing and related infrastructure, 50 years, as determined to be appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture. (b) Conveyances of Forest Service administrative sites Title V of the Forest Service Facility Realignment and Enhancement Act of 2005 (16 U.S.C. 580d note; Public Law 109–54) is amended— (1) in section 503— (A) by striking subsection (f); and (B) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (f); and (2) in section 504(c)(2), by striking by competitive sale and inserting by soliciting not fewer than 2 competitive bids.