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H.R. 4302 117th Congress House

Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act

Official title: To address the bark beetle epidemic, to reduce catastrophic wildfires in the highest risk areas, to restore and improve the ecological integrity of forest, gra… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To address the bark beetle epidemic, to reduce catastrophic wildfires in the highest risk areas, to restore and improve the ecological integrity of forest, grassland, rangeland, and watershed ecosystems across the United States through public and private partnerships with Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments and private partners, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 1, 2021 Introduced by: Lauren Boebert Republican · Colorado See on congress.gov
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 11, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Aug 2, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Aug 2, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Jul 1, 2021
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.
Jul 1, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Latest action August 11, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act

This bill establishes forest management, forest conservation, and wildfire prevention programs and activities.

The bill establishes

  • a collaborative prescribed fire program,
  • an incentive program for large, cross-boundary prescribed fires,
  • a program to remove or treat bark beetle-killed or infested trees,
  • the Restoration and Resilience Partnership Program, and
  • Forest Reserve Revenue Areas to generate revenue for counties.

The bill also provides for, among other things

  • the removal of certain trees or parts of those trees that come within 500 feet of an electric power line as hazard trees,
  • the selection and implementation of landscape-scale forest restoration projects,
  • removing the maximum term limits on stewardship end result contracting projects,
  • study of only two alternatives (action vs. nonaction) in proposed collaborative forest management activities,
  • the balancing of the long- and short-term effects of forest management activities on the affected ecosystem while considering injunctive relief,
  • categorical exclusions from certain environmental requirements for specified forest management activities, and
  • the expansion of the fire regime areas outside the wildland-urban interface for which a collaborative restoration project may be conducted.
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  • S 2698 Stop CATASTROPHES Act
  • HR 940 Clearing Lines along Electrical At-Risk Zones Act
  • HR 4516 PROTECT Act
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Lobbying activity 7

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 Cosponsors 15
All 15 Republican 12
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Nehls, Troy E.
Texas · Aug 19, 2022
Buck, Ken
· Jul 1, 2021
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Carter, John R.
Texas · Jul 1, 2021
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Cole, Tom
Oklahoma · Jul 1, 2021
 R
Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · Jul 1, 2021
 R
Higgins, Clay
Louisiana · Jul 1, 2021
 R
LaMalfa, Doug
California · Jul 1, 2021
Lamborn, Doug
· Jul 1, 2021
 R
McClintock, Tom
California · Jul 1, 2021
 R
Moore, Barry
Alabama · Jul 1, 2021
 R
Newhouse, Dan
Washington · Jul 1, 2021
 R
Obernolte, Jay
California · Jul 1, 2021
Rosendale, Matthew
· Jul 1, 2021
 R
Sessions, Pete
Texas · Jul 1, 2021
 R
Tiffany, Thomas P.
Wisconsin · Jul 1, 2021
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4302: Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4302/
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"H.R. 4302: Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4302/.
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H.R. 4302, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4302/.
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