Cliff Bentz: “Isn't it the ratepayers of the Northwest that are now going to be saddled with the burden?”

The way this works, you harvest this data from millions of people.

Does the government have to support this effort? And the answer is yes.

What you would do is you’d go back to those existing roads that have been abandoned and you would cut the trees out of them and presto, you have your road back.

Mr. Chairman, this is an excellent bill, and we need it in Oregon. We have 30 million acres of trees. We absolutely need what this bill would provide.