Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.

Plain English Breakdown

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Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.

Digest: The Act allows a state agency to agree to manage a federal forest in the state.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act allows a state agency to agree to manage a federal forest in the state.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
• Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
• Relating to: Relating to the Ochoco National Forest.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act allows a state agency to agree to manage a federal forest in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
Relating to: Relating to the Ochoco National Forest.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3846
Sponsored by Representative BREESE-IVERSON, Senators GIROD, MCLANE
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act allows a state agency to agree to manage a federal forest in the state. (Flesch
Readability Score: 63.6).
Allows the State Forestry Department to enter into a lease agreement for management authority
and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Ochoco National Forest.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Forestry Department may enter into a lease agreement with the
United States Forest Service or other relevant federal agency to assume management au-
thority and responsibility for the Ochoco National Forest for no less than 15 years.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 4525