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Requires the Secretary with jurisdiction over National Forest System land to coordinate forest management with impacted parties and carry out on-the-ground activities that reduce wildfire fuels and deliver multiple ecosystem benefits (biodiversity, water quality, etc.), unless those benefits are prohibitively costly. It authorizes use of contracts and cooperative agreements to do fuel-reduction and related work and creates a categorical exclusion for certain fuel-reduction projects that meet prescribed size and process limits so they may proceed without full NEPA review.
The section also sets rules for ground-disturbing work, defines key terms, and clarifies when projects qualify for the streamlined environmental review, while preserving the Secretary’s discretion to refuse projects if costs or impacts are unacceptable.
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.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Tom McClintock · Last progress January 3, 2025