3.0.0 2546 2023-01-11T13:15:12Z 2023-01-11T13:15:12Z Senate S S 2008-01-23 110 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-01-23T17:31:54Z Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 110 3072 HR 2008-04-25 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Related bill CRS Text similarities House Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 110 1797 S 2007-07-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2008-01-23 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2008-01-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001163 Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO] Ken Salazar D CO N A000109 Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO] A. ALLARD R CO WAYNE 2008-01-23 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Biomass energy Colorado Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Emergency Management Energy Environmental Protection Federal aid to education Fire departments Fire prevention Forest conservation Forest fires Forest health Forest management Forestry research Government Operations and Politics Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Heating Housing and Community Development Infrastructure Lumber trade Maps National forests Pests Restoration ecology Rural education School buildings Science, Technology, Communications Transportation and Public Works Tree diseases Trucks Water Resources Development Water supply Watersheds Wood Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2008-01-23 Introduced in Senate 2008-03-10T18:57:18Z Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 [sic]- Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make grants to at-risk communities in Colorado to assist them in preparing, revising, or implementing a community wildfire protection plan.

Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the use of fire department grant funds for the development and implementation of community wildfire protection plans.

Directs the Secretaries to establish collection points for the placement of vegetative material removed from federal or other land as part of a hazardous fuel reduction project under this Act.

Rewrites provisions governing the biomass commercial utilization grant program.

Authorizes the Secretaries to designate as Healthy Forest Partnership Zones certain federal lands and non-federal lands adjacent to those lands that are at risk of uncharacteristically severe damage to at-risk communities or community water supply facilities from a wildland fire or an outbreak of insects or disease and require at least one management activity to reduce that risk.

Allows the Secretaries to enter into contracts or other agreements with partnering entities to implement hazardous fuel reduction or other projects on federal land to complement similar projects on bordering or adjacent non-federal land.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide grant assistance to the Colorado Wood Program and the Forest Restoration Institute, and any other appropriate entities; and (2) collaborate with the Institute to research, develop, and transfer broader landscape treatment strategies and ways to integrate best science with community needs.

Establishes the Colorado Forest Health Fund.

Requires the Secretaries to provide grants for the Colorado fuels for schools program.

Extends terms for stewardship end result contracting projects.

Makes permanent the Secretaries' authority to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts for federal and state cooperative watershed restoration and protection.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare fire-danger maps of forested lands.

]]> Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 Display Title Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reduce the risks to Colorado communities and water supplies from severe wildfires, especially in areas affected by insect infestations, to provide model legislation that may be applied to other States experiencing similar insect infestations or other forest-related problems, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2008-01-23T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2546is/xml/BILLS-110s2546is.xml 2008-01-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 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.