Amendments
HAMDT 1219September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 16 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a study on the impacts pine beetles have in the Northeastern region of the United States.
HAMDT 1218September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 15 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to require regional foresters to submit a plan for the sale of Christmas trees and firewood on federal lands.
HAMDT 1217September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 14 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to require regional foresters to submit a plan through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program for the treatment and removal of trees killed by or infested with bark beetles in Western states.
HAMDT 1216September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 13 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to ensure grazing is one of the hazardous fuels reduction activities authorized by the bill.
HAMDT 1215September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 12 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to clarify existing authorities may be utilized to prevent wildfires in Fire Regimes IV and V which are located in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Maine, West Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa, Florida, and Texas.
HAMDT 1214September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 11 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to allow GNA revenue to be used for reconstruction, repair, and restoration of non-NFS roads necessary to implement GNA projects on federal lands, to allow GNA cooperators to construct new permanent roads on federal lands that is necessary to implement authorized restoration activities and approved by the federal agency through an Environmental Analysis or Categorical Exclusion decision, and to allow GNA cooperators to complete new permanent road construction to replace and decommission existing permanent road(s) that are adversely impacting forest, rangeland, or watershed health.
HAMDT 1213September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 10 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to expand public and private forestry and watershed management partnerships by reducing redundancy for existing water source management plans and increasing the number of eligible entities.
HAMDT 1212September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 9 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to add artificial intelligence and other decision support tools for use by the Fireshed Center.
HAMDT 1211September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 8 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to expand nursery and seed capacity work to support reforestation and restoration by state, Tribal, and local governments and institutions of higher education.
HAMDT 1210September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 7 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to direct the US Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to address reforestation and regeneration issues specific to the White Oak species through the White Oak Initiative and pilot projects.
HAMDT 1208September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 5 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to add thermal mid-wave infrared equipped low earth orbit satellites as a prioritized emerging technology for agencies to implement through public-private partnerships for wildfire mitigation and detection.
HAMDT 1207September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 4 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to clarify that special districts are eligible to participate in the wildfire-related programs authorized under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. Also, the amendment clarifies that special districts are eligible to participate in the biochar research and development program established in Sec.301 of H.R.8790. Expands the Good Neighbor Authority to special districts.
HAMDT 1206September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 3 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to require the U.S. Forest Service to conduct an evaluation of the container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS) to assess the use of such a system to mitigate and suppress wildfires.
HAMDT 1205September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 2 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to direct the United States Forest Service to expand the use of proactive, targeted animal grazing in fuels management programs to reduce wildfire risk.
HAMDT 1204September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 1 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to add consideration of a strategy for reducing the threat of wildfires to wildland firefighters to the fireshed assessment.
HAMDT 1209September 24, 2024An amendment numbered 6 printed in Part D of House Report 118-705 to authorize a Department of Interior Casualty Assistance Program to provide assistance to firefighters and the families of firefighters who were critically injured, ill, or killed in the line-of-duty.
