US HB727 | 2013-2014 | 113th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 14 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend, through FY2023, the authority of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into stewardship end result contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs. Permits the land management goals of such a project to include restoration work, fire fuels reduction, and clearing of overgrowth on snowpack watersheds.

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Title

Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2013

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History

DateChamberAction
2013-03-01HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
2013-02-28HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
2013-02-14HouseReferred to House Agriculture
2013-02-14HouseReferred to House Natural Resources
2013-02-14HouseReferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.

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