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H. Rept. 115-165,Part 1 1 (2017-06-12)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxainp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 115TH CONGRESS REPT.115-165 1st Session J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY AND FOREST PROTECTION ACT JUNE 12, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 1873] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1873) to amend the Federal Land Policy and Manage- ment Act of 1976 to enhance the reliability of the electricity grid and reduce the threat of wildfires to and from electric transmission and distribution facilities on Federal lands by facilitating vegeta- tion management on such lands, having considered the same, re- ports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act. SEC. 2. VEGETATION MANAGEMENT, FACILITY INSPECTION, AND OPERATION AND MAINTE- NANCE ON FEDERAL LANDS CONTAINING ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DIS- TRIBUTION FACILITIES. (a) IN GENERAL.-Title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1761 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: SEC. 512. VEGETATION MANAGEMENT, FACILITY INSPECTION, AND OPERATION, AND MAIN- TENANCE RELATING TO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITY RIGHTS-OF-WAY. (a) GENERAL DIRECTION.-In order to enhance the reliability of the electricity grid and reduce the threat of wildfires to and from electric transmission and dis- tribution rights-of-way and related facilities and adjacent property, the Secretary, 69-006