	Introduction

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( P.L. 111-5 , H.R. These agencies are the Forest Service (FS) in the Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS), all within the Department of the Interior (DOI). This report includes a comparison of the House and Senate provisions for the land management agencies, as contained in Title VIII of the House-passed version of H.R. Funds are provided in the law for three primary purposes: construction, resource management, and wildland fire management. 1 . 1 .
This report discusses the major federal lands provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5, H.R. 1). It focuses on provisions in the law related to four federal agencies: the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. These provisions relate to construction, resource management, and wildland fire management. A comparison of the House- and Senate-passed versions of H.R. 1 also is provided, which includes a discussion of the Centennial Challenge of the National Park Service.