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

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

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.

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