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        <text>Executive Comment Requested from USDA.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Bass, Charles F. [R-NH-2]</fullName>
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          <name>Energy assistance for the poor</name>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Home Heating Assistance Act - Directs, for the one year period beginning upon enactment of this Act, forest officers designated by the supervisor of a unit of the National Forest System (NFS) to grant individuals the free collection and removal of dead timber from designated NFS lands to be used as firewood. Limits the total value of the timber collected by an individual to $1,000.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>Home Heating Assistance Act</title>
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        <title>To help relieve the shortage in the supply of firewood for home heating use by making additional quantities of free firewood available to individuals from National Forest System lands.</title>
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