House Bill 4302
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act
Introduced
Introduced in House on Jul 1, 2021
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
4302
Congress
117
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Primary focus of measure is natural areas (including wilderness); lands under government jurisdiction; land use practices and policies; parks, monuments, and historic sites; fisheries and marine resources; mining and minerals. Measures concerning energy supplies and production may fall under Energy policy area.
No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act
This bill establishes forest management, forest conservation, and wildfire prevention programs and activities.
The bill establishes
- a collaborative prescribed fire program,
- an incentive program for large, cross-boundary prescribed fires,
- a program to remove or treat bark beetle-killed or infested trees,
- the Restoration and Resilience Partnership Program, and
- Forest Reserve Revenue Areas to generate revenue for counties.
The bill also provides for, among other things
- the removal of certain trees or parts of those trees that come within 500 feet of an electric power line as hazard trees,
- the selection and implementation of landscape-scale forest restoration projects,
- removing the maximum term limits on stewardship end result contracting projects,
- study of only two alternatives (action vs. nonaction) in proposed collaborative forest management activities,
- the balancing of the long- and short-term effects of forest management activities on the affected ecosystem while considering injunctive relief,
- categorical exclusions from certain environmental requirements for specified forest management activities, and
- the expansion of the fire regime areas outside the wildland-urban interface for which a collaborative restoration project may be conducted.
July 1, 2021
08/11/2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
08/02/2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
08/02/2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
07/01/2021
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
07/01/2021
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
Mar 8, 2023 8:12:14 PM