3.0.0 1344 2023-01-11T13:22:38Z 2023-01-11T13:22:38Z Senate S S 2011-07-11 112 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2011-08-03T20:42:58Z Reported by 2012-01-13T19:46:14Z Markup by 2011-11-10T17:01:26Z Referred to 2011-07-11T20:57:56Z S. Rept. 112-126 Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act 112 2562 HR 2011-07-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry. Related bill CRS 2012-01-18 Senate Star Print ordered on reported bill. Floor 2012-01-13 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 287. Calendars 2012-01-13 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman under authority of the order of the Senate of 12/17/2011 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 112-126. Committee 2012-01-13 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman under authority of the order of the Senate of 12/17/2011 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 112-126. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2011-11-10 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2011-08-03 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-226. Committee 2011-07-11 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2011-07-11 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4486-4487) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2011-07-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000352 Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] Jon Kyl R AZ Llewellyn N M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY 2011-07-11 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Arizona Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Fires Forests, forestry, trees Land use and conservation Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2011-07-11 Introduced in Senate 2011-10-25T22:24:46Z Arizona Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct and report on a hazard tree and commercial timber evaluation that identifies timber resources appropriate for removal within the Wallow Fire Area not later than the earlier of: (1) 30 days after the completion of the burned area emergency response for the Wallow Fire Area; or (2) 45 days after the date of containment of the Wallow Fire.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) exclude from areas identified for tree removal high fire-severity burned areas on steep slopes, slopes with an incline greater than 40%, riparian areas, and fragile erosive sites, unless tree removal in those areas is necessary to address public health and safety concerns; and (2) limit the removal of trees under a timber removal project under this Act to hazard trees and trees that are already down, dead, or severely root-sprung, such that mortality is highly probable.

Provides that: (1) nothing in this Act authorizes new permanent road construction for timber removal, and (2) it is the intent of Congress that all timber removal projects carried out under this Act be completed within 18 months of this Act's enactment.

Requires the Secretary, in the case of a timber removal project to be conducted in a Community Protection Management Area, to prepare an environmental assessment for the proposed agency action under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

Subjects timber removal projects carried out under this Act to the special administrative process and judicial review process under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003.

Requires amounts collected from a timber removal project carried out under this Act to be available for expenditure by the Secretary without further appropriation for forest restoration treatments on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona.]]>

01 2012-01-13 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2012-05-23T22:47:23Z Arizona Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act - (Sec. 3) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to commence within 30 days after enactment of this Act and complete within 75 days an evaluation of the Wallow Fire Area, which shall include: (1) a map of the burn intensity within the Area; (2) a description of the forest conditions in the burned areas, the risks that the conditions in such Area may pose to forest users, communities, private property, and natural resources, and the actions undertaken by the Forest Service to reduce such risks; (3) a map and description of areas for potential hazard tree removal and potential fire-damaged commercial tree removal; (4) preliminary estimates of the costs and receipts to be derived from the hazard tree and fire-damaged commercial timber identified for potential removal and the receipts likely to be lost if action is not taken in a timely manner; and (5) a description of the desired outcomes of rehabilitation and tree removal in burned portions.

Requires the Secretary to exclude from areas identified for tree removal high fire-severity burned areas on steep slopes, slopes with an incline greater than 40%, riparian areas, and fragile erosive sites, unless tree removal in those areas is necessary to address public health and safety concerns.

(Sec. 4) Requires the Secretary: (1) to identify projects to reduce such risks by removing hazard trees and fire-damaged, dead, and dying timber resources in such Area; (2) to consider the results of the evaluation in identifying such projects; (3) in selecting tree removal techniques, to take into account the degree of ground disturbances, soil types, soil saturation, worker safety, threatened or endangered species, aquatic systems, and other ecological values associated with project sites; (4) to use an effectiveness monitoring framework to assess the ecological and economic effects of each timber removal project carried out; and (5) in carrying out such projects, to focus tree removal to hazard trees and trees that are already down, dead, or so severely root-sprung that mortality is highly probable and not construct any permanent road. Expresses the intent of Congress that all projects be completed by September 30, 2013.

Authorizes the Secretary to use the pre-decisional administrative review process in lieu of an administrative appeal under the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 for any collaboratively-developed project to remove hazard trees and fire-damaged, dead, and dying timber resources in such Area for which a decision notice or record of decision has been issued by September 30, 2012.]]>

Arizona Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act Display Title Arizona Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate action to recover ecologically and economically from a catastrophic wildfire in the State of Arizona, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Arizona Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Arizona Wallow Fire Recovery and Monitoring Act S Senate Reported to Senate 2012-01-13T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1344rs/xml/BILLS-112s1344rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2011-07-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1344is/xml/BILLS-112s1344is.xml 2012-01-18 Star Print ordered on reported bill. 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.