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HR 4233 111th Congress House Public Lands and Natural Resources Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Fires Forests, forestry, trees Rural conditions and development Urban and suburban affairs and development

Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009

Introduced: December 8, 2009 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 29, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Dec 10, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Dec 8, 2009
Referred to House Natural Resources
Dec 8, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
Dec 8, 2009
Referred to House Agriculture
Dec 8, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009 - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to expand the purposes of the Act to include providing for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of forest ecosystem components to protect infrastructure in rural communities.

Expands federal land areas eligible for hazardous fuel reduction projects.

Repeals the total federal land acreage limitation on authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects.

Revises requirements regarding the alternative analysis process for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the wildland-urban interface. Bars the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior from being required to study, develop, or describe more than the proposed agency action and a no action alternative in an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement for specified proposed authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects.

What's happening now March 29, 2010

Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Republican 5
R
Thompson, Glenn
Pennsylvania · May 18, 2010
Childers, Travis
· Apr 20, 2010
Chaffetz, Jason
· Jan 13, 2010
 R
Calvert, Ken
California · Dec 16, 2009
 R
McClintock, Tom
California · Dec 16, 2009
 R
Simpson, Michael K.
Idaho · Dec 16, 2009
 R
Wilson, Joe
South Carolina · Dec 16, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4233: Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-4233/
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