; (14) the Forest Service has an enormous backlog of maintenance needs for the existing 371,581-mile road system of the Forest Service that will cost $3,200,000,000 to eliminate; and (15) continued protection of roadless areas will continue to allow for the development of hydropower projects. (b) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to provide, within the context of multiple-use management, lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Inventoried roadless area The term inventoried roadless area means any area in which road construction, road reconstruction, or logging is subject to regulation under the Roadless Rule. (2) Roadless Rule The term Roadless Rule means part 294 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, as adopted on January 12, 2001, and modified for Idaho on October 16, 2008, and for Colorado on July 3, 2012, and December 19, 2016. (3) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service. 4. Protection of inventoried roadless areas The Secretary shall not allow road construction, road reconstruction, or logging in an inventoried roadless area where those activities are prohibited by the Roadless Rule.