3.0.0 4875 2023-01-13T04:48:59Z 2023-01-13T04:48:59Z House H HR 2006-03-02 109 hssy00 Science, Space, and Technology Committee House Standing hssy14 Research Subcommittee Referred to 2006-05-12T15:10:11Z Referred to 2006-03-02T15:03:30Z hsii00 Natural Resources Committee House Standing hsii20 Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee Referred to 2006-03-16T20:16:31Z Referred to 2006-03-02T15:03:20Z hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee Referred to 2006-03-16T20:12:18Z Referred to 2006-03-02T15:03:15Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2006-03-02T15:03:25Z Rocky Mountain Forest Insects Response Enhancement and Support Act 109 2584 S 2006-04-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Related bill CRS 2006-05-12 hssy14 Research Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Research. Committee 2006-03-16 hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 1 House committee actions Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior. Committee 2006-03-16 hsii20 Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health. Committee 2006-03-16 hsag22 Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Committee 2006-03-02 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hssy00 Science, Space, and Technology Committee 2006-03-02 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2006-03-02 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 2006-03-02 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2006-03-02 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2006-03-02 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E267-268) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-03-02 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2006-03-02 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress U000038 Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2] MARK UDALL D CO 2 N S001158 Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3] John Salazar D CO T. 3 2006-03-02 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Animals Arizona Biomass energy Colorado Commerce Compensation (Law) Department of Agriculture Department of the Interior Economics and Public Finance Emergency Management Energy Energy facilities Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Fire prevention Forest fires Forest management Gifts Government Operations and Politics Government service contracts Grants-in-aid Idaho Income tax Insect control Landowners Law Logging Montana New Mexico North Dakota Pests Planning Refuse and refuse disposal South Dakota Subsidies Tax exclusion Taxation Tree diseases Urban affairs Urban areas Utah Water Resources Development Water supply Watersheds Wood Wyoming Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2006-03-02 Introduced in House 2006-04-18T18:44:03Z Rocky Mountain Forest Insects Response Enhancement and Support Act or the Rocky Mountain FIRES Act - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to require the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to allocate not less than 70% of the funds allocated for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the Rocky Mountain region for: (1) projects in the wildland-urban interface; and (2) lands that are in proximity to a municipal water supply system or a stream feeding such a system within a municipal watershed and that have been identified for such projects in community wildfire protection plans.

Authorizes the Secretary to designate insect-emergency areas.

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to at-risk communities in the Rocky Mountain region to assist such communities to prepare or revise a community wildfire protection plan.

Requires the Secretary to establish at least one collection point for the placement of vegetative material removed from federal or other lands as part of hazardous fuel reduction projects.

Authorizes the Secretary to award stewardship contracts to, or enter in agreements with, owners of lands contiguous to federal lands managed by the Secretary under which the landowners may carry out a fuel-reduction project or other activities on the contiguous federal lands in order to reduce the extent to which the federal lands or other lands could be affected by wildfires.

]]> Rocky Mountain FIRES Act Display Title Rocky Mountain FIRES Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to help reduce the increased risk of severe wildfires to communities in forested areas affected by infestations of bark beetles and other insects, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Rocky Mountain FIRES Act Short Titles as Introduced Rocky Mountain Forest Insects Response Enhancement and Support Act Introduced in House 2006-03-02T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr4875ih/xml/BILLS-109hr4875ih.xml 2006-05-12 Referred to the Subcommittee on Research. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.