3.0.0 3709 2022-12-29T21:33:29Z 2022-12-29T21:33:29Z Senate S 2022-02-28 117 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2022-06-07T19:00:30Z Referred to 2022-02-28T22:21:43Z 2022-06-07 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. Committee 2022-02-28 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S838) IntroReferral 2022-02-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. N B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2022-02-28 True R000605 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] Mike Rounds R SD 2022-03-10 False L000571 Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] Cynthia Lummis R WY M. 2022-03-10 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Environmental regulatory procedures Forests, forestry, trees Land use and conservation Montana South Dakota Wyoming Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2022-02-28 Introduced in Senate 2022-06-08T13:45:01Z Black Hills Forest Protection and Jobs Preservation Act of 2022

This bill provides for vegetation management projects and timber production projects on certain National Forest System lands in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

The bill directs the Forest Service to issue one or more decisions using expedited authorities for compliance with environmental review requirements to carry out vegetation management projects on land in the Black Hills National Forest. Furthermore, the Forest Service shall categorize the Black Hills National Forest and the Bighorn National Forest as being very high priority for ecological restoration that involves vegetation removal.

The Forest Service must also use specified amounts made available for forest thinning and timber harvesting for timber production in the Bighorn National Forest, the Custer Gallatin National Forest, and the Black Hills National Forest. In carrying out such timber production, the Forest Service shall use, to the extent practicable, the categorical exclusion for certain forest management activities and specified emergency action authority.

A vegetation management or timber production project carried out under this bill shall not be subject to judicial review.

Such a project may not be carried out on (1) a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, or (2) an inventoried roadless area.

]]> Black Hills Forest Protection and Jobs Preservation Act of 2022 Display Title Black Hills Forest Protection and Jobs Preservation Act of 2022 Short Title(s) as Introduced Black Hills Forest Protection and Jobs Preservation Act of 2022 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out vegetation management projects and timber production projects on certain National Forest System land in the States of Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s3709is/xml/BILLS-117s3709is.xml 2022-06-07 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. 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.