Bill113th Congress

S. 661

A bill to amend the Health Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to promote timely emergency rehabilitation and restoration of Federal forest land impacted by catastrophic events, to redirect for a 5-year-period funding normally made available for land acquisition to mechanical forest treatment and salvage operations due to catastrophic events, and for other purposes.

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Introduced
Mar 22, 2013
Origin Chamber
Senate
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Latest Action
Mar 22, 2013

Sponsor

Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]

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First Name: John
Middle Name: R.
Last Name: Thune
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Bill Details

Update Date
Nov 15, 2022
Origin Chamber
Senate
Bill Type
S
Bill Number
661
Congress
113
Introduced Date
Mar 22, 2013
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Is Law
No
Mar 22, 2013IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Source: Senate

Mar 22, 2013IntroReferral10000

Introduced in Senate

Source: Library of Congress

Introduced in Senate· Mar 22, 20130

Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) and the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, to implement procedures to ensure that not less than 600,000 acres of federal land each fiscal year are treated with mechanical treatments intended to produce merchantable wood.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) declare that emergency circumstances exist for all federal land affected by a catastrophic event, including federal land outside urban interface areas; and (2) take actions necessary for the rehabilitation or restoration of such federal land, with highest priority given to land impacted by large-scale beetle infestations.

Directs the Secretary to initiate salvage activities on federal land affected by a catastrophic event so as to prevent significant deterioration of timber values, development of significant fire hazard, or other forest mortality that would prevent such land from regenerating to forest within five years.

Excludes from the provisions of this Act: (1) a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) federal land on which the removal of vegetation is prohibited or restricted by Congress, the President, or a land management plan; or (3) a wilderness study area.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

Senate· Standing
Administrative remediesEnvironmental assessment, monitoring, researchFiresFloods and storm protectionForests, forestry, treesNatural disasters

Introduced in Senate

Mar 22, 2013