Legislative Oversight

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Canonical URL: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/471

Official text excerpt

119 HR 471 IH: Fix Our Forests Act 
 U.S. House of Representatives 
 2025-01-16 
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 
 
 
 
 I 
 119th CONGRESS 1st Session 
 H. R. 471 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 January 16, 2025 
 Mr. Westerman (for himself, Mr. Peters , Mr. Tiffany , Mr. Panetta , Mr. Stauber , Mr. Whitesides , Mr. Collins , Mr. Vasquez , Mrs. Kim , Mr. Costa , Mr. Zinke , Mr. Harder of California , Mr. Johnson of South Dakota , Mr. Bera , Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia , Mr. Garamendi , Ms. Maloy , Mr. Thompson of California , Mr. Begich , Mr. Correa , Mr. Crank , Mr. Golden of Maine , Mr. Ezell , Mr. Mullin , Mr. Hurd of Colorado , Ms. Lee of Nevada , Mr. Valadao , Mr. Gray , Mr. Barr , Mr. Hoyer , Mr. Carter of Georgia , Ms. Pettersen , Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania , Mr. Obernolte , Mr. Walberg , Mr. LaMalfa , Mr. Gosar , Ms. Boebert , Mr. McClintock , Mr. Issa , Mr. Fong , Ms. Hageman , Mr. Fry , and Mr. Amodei of Nevada ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture , and Science, Space, and Technology , 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 
 
 A BILL 
 To expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and improve forest management activities on National Forest System lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and on Tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes. 
 
 
 1. Short title; table of contents 
 (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Fix Our Forests Act . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
 Sec. 2. Definitions. 
 Title I—Lan…

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