US Congress Senate Bill 2073 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on November 2 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-11-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

National Forest System Vegetation Management Pilot Program Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a limited, voluntary pilot program under which owners and operators of rights-of-way on National Forest System (NFS) land may conduct vegetation management projects on NFS land adjacent to or near those rights-of-way to better protect utility infrastructure from potential passing wildfires. USDA shall give priority to an owner or operator of a right-of-way that has worked with Forest Service fire scientists and used technologies to improve utility infrastructure protection prescriptions. Vegetation management projects shall involve only limited and selective vegetation management activities that: create the least amount of disturbance necessary to protect utility infrastructure from passing wildfires; may include thinning, fuel reduction, creation, and treatment of shaded fuel breaks; are conducted only on NFS land adjacent to the participant's right-of-way or within 75 feet of it; and are not conducted on a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, a designated wilderness area, or an inventoried roadless area. Each vegetation management project, including each of those activities selected, shall be subject to approval by the Forest Service.

National Forest System Vegetation Management Pilot Program Act of 2017

Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. John Thune [R-SD]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-11-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB2921 (Related) 2017-11-01 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2073/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2073/BILLS-115s2073is.pdf