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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION 4
115TH CONGRESS REPT.115-370
1st Session J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
RESILIENT FEDERAL FORESTS ACT OF 2017
OCTOBER 25, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. CONAWAY, from the Committee on Agriculture,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2936]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 2936) 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 resil-
ience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommend 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Resilient Federal Forests Act of
2017.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 3. Rule of application for National Forest System lands and public lands.
TITLE I-EXPEDITED ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS AND AVAILABILITY OF CATEGORICAL
EXCLUSIONS TO EXPEDITE FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
Subtitle A-Analysis of Proposed Collaborative Forest Management Activities
Sec. 101. Analysis of only two alternatives (action versus no action) in proposed collaborative forest manage-
ment activities.
Subtitle B-Categorical Exclusions
Sec. 111. Categorical exclusion to expedite certain critical response actions.
Sec. 112. Categorical exclusion to expedite salvage operations in response to catastrophic events.
Sec. 113. Categorical exclusion to meet forest plan goals for early successional forests.
Sec. 114. Categorical exclusion for road side projects.
Sec. 115. Categorical exclusion to improve or restore National Forest System Lands or public land or reduce
the risk of wildfire.
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