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S. 395 119th Congress Senate

Emergency Fuel Reduction Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to expedite wildfire prevention projects to reduce the risk of wildfire on certain high-risk Federal land, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 4, 2025 Introduced by: Cynthia M. Lummis Republican · Wyoming See on congress.gov
Public Lands and Natural Resources Endangered and threatened speciesEnvironmental assessment, monitoring, researchFiresForests, forestry, trees
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Feb 4, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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Emergency Fuel Reduction Act of 2025

This bill categorically excludes from the environmental review requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) certain hazardous fuel reduction projects on federal land. A categorical exclusion applies to a class of actions that do not require an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement under NEPA.

The categorical exclusion established by the bill applies to a hazardous fuel reduction project that (1) involves the removal of trees that are dead, dying, or insect-infected or present a threat to public safety; (2) involves the removal of hazardous fuels threatening infrastructure; (3) is conducted on federal land with conditions that pose a risk to adjacent nonfederal land; or (4) treats 10,000 acres or less of federal land that is at particular risk for wildfire, contains threatened and endangered species habitat, or provides conservation benefits to certain species, such as a special concern species.

This categorical exclusion does not apply to federal land (1) that is a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, (2) on which the removal of vegetation is specifically prohibited by federal law, or (3) that is within a national monument as of the date of enactment of this bill.

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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Feb 4, 2025
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Sheehy, Tim
Montana · Feb 4, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 395: Emergency Fuel Reduction Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-395/
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"S. 395: Emergency Fuel Reduction Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-395/.
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