US Congress House Bill 4233 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 22-6)
Status: Introduced on December 8 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-03-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009 - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to expand the purposes of the Act to include providing for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of forest ecosystem components to protect infrastructure in rural communities. Expands federal land areas eligible for hazardous fuel reduction projects. Repeals the total federal land acreage limitation on authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects. Revises requirements regarding the alternative analysis process for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the wildland-urban interface. Bars the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior from being required to study, develop, or describe more than the proposed agency action and a no action alternative in an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement for specified proposed authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects.

Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009

Rep. Rodney Alexander [R-LA]	Rep. Brian Baird [D-WA]	Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]	Rep. Rob Bishop [R-UT]
Rep. Dan Boren [D-OK]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Travis Childers [D-MS]
Rep. Howard Coble [R-NC]	Rep. Artur Davis [D-AL]	Rep. Nathan Deal [R-GA]	Rep. Elton Gallegly [R-CA]
Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]	Rep. Doc Hastings [R-WA]	Rep. Wally Herger [R-CA]	Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin [D-SD]
Rep. Jerry Lewis [R-CA]	Rep. Daniel Lungren [R-CA]	Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA]	Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA]
Rep. Gary Miller [R-CA]	Rep. Denny Rehberg [R-MT]	Rep. David Reichert [R-WA]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]
Rep. Michael Simpson [R-ID]	Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]	Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR]	Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-29		Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
2009-12-10		Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
2009-12-08		Referred to House Natural Resources
2009-12-08		Referred to House Agriculture
2009-12-08		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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/4233/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr4233/BILLS-111hr4233ih.pdf