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H.R. 3442 117th Congress House

National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021

Official title: To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department o… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 20, 2021 Introduced by: Kim Schrier Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov
Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAir qualityDepartment of AgricultureDepartment of the Interior
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Jul 9, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Jul 8, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
May 21, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
May 20, 2021
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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.
May 20, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 9, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to significantly increase the number and size of prescribed fires conducted on federal lands.

Before the end of FY2023, Interior and USDA shall each have carried out a minimum of one prescribed fire on each unit of the National Forest System, unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, unit of the National Park System, and Bureau of Land Management district (1) that includes an area that has a historical low-severity fire regime, has a historical fire-return interval of not more than 35 years, and is larger than 100 acres; and (2) less than half of which was burned by a wildland fire during the previous 10-year period.

Interior shall establish a collaborative prescribed fire program to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to conduct prescribed fires in priority landscapes.

Interior shall establish an incentive program to encourage the implementation of large, cross-boundary prescribed fires.

Interior and USDA shall hire additional employees and provide training to increase the number of skilled and qualified prescribed fire practitioners in the departments and other organizations.

To address the public health and safety risk of the expanded use of prescribed fire, USDA and Interior shall conduct research to improve or develop, among other things, cost-effective, and consistent mitigation strategies for communities impacted adversely by smoke from prescribed fire.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 1734 National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021
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 Committees of jurisdiction 7
 Lobbying activity 1

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  • BRUMIDI GROUP
    for FIREGENERATION COLLABORATIVE · Oregon · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)

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 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 3 Republican 1
D
Garamendi, John
California · Jan 19, 2022
 D
Costa, Jim
California · Oct 21, 2021
 D
Huffman, Jared
California · Oct 15, 2021
Schrader, Kurt
· May 20, 2021
 R
Simpson, Michael K.
Idaho · May 20, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3442: National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-3442/
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"H.R. 3442: National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-3442/.
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