; and (B) to use advanced geospatial technologies to improve area and volume estimates, especially for sub-State regions and smaller area estimates; (2) may use remote sensing technologies and other technologies to develop more accurate and efficient methods and to reduce costs to facilitate the measuring and monitoring of forest carbon in the United States, in a manner that can— (A) assess landscape-scale or regional-scale carbon stocking; (B) improve the quantity and quality of the information available to policy makers and forest managers, including with regard to forest inventories and verification activities; (C) empower private forest owners to participate in voluntary carbon crediting opportunities; and (D) enable— (i) a policy maker to compare the consequences of policy options to increase climate benefits from forests; and (ii) an assessment of the effectiveness of a policy implemented to increase the climate benefits from forests; and (3) may accelerate, or increase the frequency of, current inventories and data collection activities across all forest types to ensure consistent nationwide estimates of forest carbon pools that can reflect short-term changes from disturbances, such as wildfires, and management activities. (b) Funding The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, may annually use to carry out this section not more than $10,000,000 of any amount made available to the Forest Service for research. 403. Bioeconomy research The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Director of the Forest Products Laboratory of the Forest Service, shall expand research relating to the use of wood— (1) to facilitate the establishment of new markets, including nontraditional markets, for material produced from forest management projects that typically has little or no commercial value; (2) to increase the economic viability of manufacturing products using material described in paragraph (1)