The purposes of this chapter are—

(1) to stabilize and transition payments to counties to provide funding for schools and roads that supplements other available funds;

to make additional investments in, and create additional employment opportunities through, projects that—

(A) (i) improve the maintenance of existing infrastructure; (ii) implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems; and (iii) restore and improve land health and water quality;

(B) enjoy broad-based support; and

(C) have objectives that may include— (i) road, trail, and infrastructure maintenance or obliteration; (ii) soil productivity improvement; (iii) improvements in forest ecosystem health; (iv) watershed restoration and maintenance; (v) the restoration, maintenance, and improvement of wildlife and fish habitat; (vi) the control of noxious and exotic weeds; and (vii) the reestablishment of native species; and

to improve cooperative relationships among—

(A) the people that use and care for Federal land; and

(B) the agencies that manage the Federal land.

(Pub. L. 106–393, § 2, as added Pub. L. 110–343, div. C, title VI, § 601(a), Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3893.)