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' Has the public indicated that more or improved access is needed in this area? ' What is the level of local support for the acquisition? The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest acquired the Point of Rocks project, which includes 396 acres of habitat for elk, deer, and moose. The property connects to a county road, which greatly improves access for hunting and fishing to 2,700 acres of public lands The Nantahala National Forest acquired the Tanassee Ridge project. The project is 112 acres and will provide new public access, including road access, to a proposed hiking and horseback riding trail. It is also a gateway for public access to the Tuckasegee River. The EAJA, enacted in 1980, authorizes the payment of attorney fees and court costs to parties that prevail against the government in legal proceedings. The Forest Service has kept detailed records on EAJA payments and other attorney fees since FY 2009. This exhibit addresses the directive included in House Report 112-151 that accompanied the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74), The Committee directs the Department of the Interior, the EPA, and the Forest Service to provide to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and make publicly available, no later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, and with each agency's annual budget submission thereafter, the following information: detailed reports on the amount of program funds used; the names of the fee recipients; the names of the Federal judges; the disposition of the applications (including any appeals of action taken on the applications); and the hourly rates of attorneys and expert witnesses stated in the applications that was awarded, for all EAJA fee payments awarded as a result of litigation against any of the Department of the Interior bureaus, the EPA, or the Forest Service, or their respective employees. The report shall also include the information listed above for litigation relating to the Endangered Species Act and the amounts, outside of EAJA awards, paid in settlement for all litigation, regardless of the statute litigated. Docket/Court Case Name Plaintiff Judge(s) Date Certified Program Disposition of Amount for our Forest for our Forest Stanley A. 5/13/2025 FS Inventory Agreement 253,333 9:21-CV-00051- Rachel Birkey and Christensen Products Settlement 9:24-CV-00025- Commissioners et Board of Products Settlement Alliance for the Alliance for the Friends of the US FS and Docket/Court Case Name Plaintiff Judge(s) Date Certified Program Disposition of Amount California) Alliance and Regina M. 8/15/2025 FS Forest Settlement 1,689,833 CV 23-3-M-DWM San Juan Citizen Center for Rodriguez Products Agreement TOTAL Center for Donald W. 7/24/2025 LMP Assessment Settlement Biological v Alliance for the Molloy

Extracted from Forest Service, p. 40. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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