Summary/Abstract
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to owners or operators of qualified public lands, universities, nongovernmental organizations, or Indian tribes for projects for sequestering carbon through:
- grazing practices,
- restoring degraded qualified public lands,
- application of compost on qualified public lands, or
- using biochar (carbonized biomass) as an amendment on qualified public lands.
Interior shall establish a science advisory board to furnish analysis and recommendations regarding:
- the selection of such eligible entities and activities to receive grants based on the best available science, and
- appropriate monitoring requirements to quantify project performance and communicate results.
Interior shall make grants, through a challenge competition, to eligible entities for projects to carry out innovative approaches to eligible activities.