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        <text><![CDATA[Wildfire Prevention and Forest Health Protection Act - Authorizes Regional Foresters to exempt certain wildfire prevention tree-thinning projects on National Forest System lands from any laws that give rise to legal causes of action seeking to delay or prevent such actions. Exempts such projects from: (1) judicial review; or (2) notice, comment, and appeals under the Appeals Reform Act.<p>Sets forth the Constitutional authority for this Act.]]></text>
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