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Senate Bill 349
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Fire-Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025
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Introduced in Senate on Jan 30, 2025
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S. 349 (Introduced-in-Senate)


119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 349


To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System land without conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 30, 2025

Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mr. Daines) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System land without conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Fire-Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. Permits and agreements with electrical utilities.

(a) In general.—In any special use permit or easement on National Forest System land provided to an electrical utility, the Secretary of Agriculture may provide permission to cut and remove trees or other vegetation from within the vicinity of distribution lines or transmission lines without requiring a separate timber sale, if that cutting and removal is consistent with—

(1) the applicable land and resource management plan; and

(2) other applicable environmental laws (including regulations).

(b) Use of proceeds.—A special use permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal described in subsection (a) shall include a requirement that, if the applicable electrical utility sells any portion of the material removed under the permit or easement, the electrical utility shall provide to the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, any proceeds received from the sale, less any transportation costs incurred in the sale.

(c) Effect.—Nothing in subsection (b) shall require the sale of any material removed under a permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal described in subsection (a).