# Timber Sale Pipeline Restoration

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Permanent Operating Funds  
**Source document:** Bureau of Land Management · p. 205  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/timber-sale-pipeline-restoration  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 4.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 4.0 |

## Interior discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $18.80B, FY2026 $17.30B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

*An adjustment was made in 2017 to correct a 2016 deposit error. The 2016 Annual Deposit should have been approximately 50% of the value shown due to the expiration of Secure Rural Schools. The 2017 Annual Deposit reflects the net deposit after the correction for 2016. Recreation Projects Funded Through the Pipeline Fund - Significant progress has been made in western Oregon to address recreation projects using funds from the TSPRF. Through the end of 2023, 25 percent of the TSPRF has been used to complete deferred maintenance work at recreation sites scattered throughout western Oregon on O&C lands. The principal focus of recreation spending is maintaining existing facilities, resolving critical safety needs, and meeting the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The BLM has made considerable investment in projects such as renovation of water and sewer systems, upgrading restroom facilities, improving parking areas, and adapting existing recreation sites for disabled visitors. In 2025, the actual BLM level of expenditures for recreation projects from the Timber Sales Prepared by Use of the Pipeline Fund - Approximately 75 percent of the Federal share of TSPRF receipts is specifically used by a multiple resource team of specialists to prepare timber sales including all necessary National Environmental Policy Act environmental inventories and analyses; timber sale layout; timber cruising and appraising; and contract preparation costs. Upon completion of these requirements, a timber sale is officially prepared and placed "on-the-shelf" in anticipation of being offered for sale in future years. Since the TSPRF legislation was signed, the BLM has harvested more than 750 million board feet of timber from over 47,000 acres valued at more than $150 million from the TSPRF timber sales. For 2026, the BLM expects to expend approximately $4 million for 2026 and out-year timber sales. Expenses, Road Maintenance Deposits - This activity provides for the permanent appropriation of money collected from commercial road users in lieu of user maintenance. The receipts are permanently appropriated to the BLM for road maintenance. Users of certain roads under the BLM jurisdiction make deposits for maintenance purposes. Monies collected are available for needed road maintenance. Monies collected on Oregon and California Grant Lands are available only for those lands (43 U.S.C. 1762(c), 43 U.S.C. 1735(b)). The BLM has authority to collect money for road maintenance from commercial users of the public lands and the public domain lands transportation system. Most of the funds generated for Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification this account come from Oregon and California Grant Lands and are available for those lands only. Southern Nevada Public Land Sales - This receipt account allows the BLM to record transactions authorized by SNPLMA as amended. The purpose of the Act is to provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands in Clark County, Nevada, to meet the demands for community expansion and economic development, and to use the proceeds to develop trails and natural areas; for targeted land acquisitions; to provide outdoor recreation opportunities and encourage interaction with nature; restore and protect healthy and resilient landscapes that connect important habitats; emphasize projects at Federal facilities that address resource protection, education, and visitors' experiences; and reduce hazardous fuels in and near communities. Receipts are generated primarily through sale to the public of lands in the Las Vegas valley. Approximately 70,000 acres of public land are within the designated disposal boundary Currently, funds collected from the land sales are distributed as follows: ' 5 percent to the State General Education Fund; ' 10 percent to the Southern Nevada Water Authority to fund the infrastructure needed to support the development resulting from land sales under the Act; and, ' 85 percent is deposited into a special Treasury account and available to be spent by the Secretary of Collections are reported when payments are received regardless of when sales are held, and the estimates make allowance for the normal lag of 180 days between sales and collections. For more information on SNPLMA see http://www.blm.gov/snplma. Those collections and estimated collection amounts exclude interest deposited to the fund and payments to the State and Southern Nevada Water Authority. Lincoln County Sales - This receipt account allows the BLM to record transactions authorized by the LCLA and the LCCRDA. The purpose of the Acts is to provide for the disposal of certain Federal lands in Lincoln County, Nevada. Funds accumulated in the special account may be used to: ' Preserve archaeological resources and habitat, manage wilderness and an OHV trail, and reimburse the BLM Nevada Offices for land sale costs related to this act; ' Process public land use authorizations and rights-of-way stemming from conveyed land; and, ' Purchase targeted land or interests in land in the State of Nevada, with priority given to land outside Southern Nevada Public Land Management and Lincoln County Acts- Earnings on Investments - The SNPLMA, LCLA and LCCRDA authorize the Secretary to manage the collections account for the purposes set out above, and to use interest generated from the above-mentioned funds. The BLM is authorized to invest the unspent balance of collections from the SNPLMA, and both Acts associated with Lincoln County (LCLA and LCCRDA) land sale receipts. Projected investment earnings take into account revenue from land sales, earnings on investments, interest earnings from land sales, and projected interest rates and outlays. Funds in the special accounts earn interest at a rate determined by the Secretary Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification of the Treasury and are available for expenditure by the Secretary without further appropriation under the The Agriculture Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-79) provides permanent stewardship contracting authority. The Act grants the BLM the ability to utilize stewardship contracting as a tool for forest and rangeland restoration. The BLM may apply the value of timber or other forest products removed as an offset against the cost of services received, and monies from a contract under subsection (a) may be retained by the USFS and the BLM and shall be available for expenditure without further appropriation at the project site from which the monies are collected or at another project site. Federal Land Disposal Account - The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA), provides authority for the use of receipts from disposal actions by the BLM to purchase inholdings and lands adjacent to federally designated areas containing exceptional resources, as defined in FLTFA, from willing sellers with acceptable titles, at fair market value, to "promote consolidation of the ownership of public and private lands in a manner that would allow for better overall resource management administrative efficiency, or resource allocation." Four percent of the FLTFA collections are paid to the State in which the land is sold. NPR-2 Lease Revenue Account - Section 331 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L.109-58) transferred Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 2 from the Department of Energy to the DOI and appropriates a portion of revenues from mineral leases on the site to remove environmental contamination. The appropriations end when the cleanup is completed. Permit Processing Improvement Fund - Section 365 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L.109-58) permanently directs that 50 percent of rents from onshore mineral leases for oil and gas, coal, and oil shale on Federal lands are to be deposi


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Interior › Bureau of Land Management › Permanent Operating Funds › Timber Sale Pipeline Restoration


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