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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="1655" measure-id="id119hr1655" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-02-27" update-date="2025-05-15">
        <title>Wildfire Communications Resiliency Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr1655v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-05-15">
            <action-date>2025-02-27</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Wildfire Communications Resiliency Act</strong></p><p>This bill exempts certain post-wildfire communications infrastructure projects from specified federal environmental and historic preservation review requirements.&nbsp;</p><p>Specifically, the bill exempts from review projects that (1) are to be carried out within five years of the declaration of a wildfire-related major disaster or emergency in a given area; (2) are to be carried out entirely within the area for which the major disaster or emergency was declared; and (3) will replace a communications facility damaged by the major disaster or emergency, or make improvements to a communications&nbsp;facility that are necessary for recovery or to prevent or mitigate a future major disaster or emergency. To qualify under the bill, a major disaster or emergency must have been declared by the President, a state governor, or a tribal chief executive.&nbsp;</p><p>The bill specifies that these projects are not considered <em>major federal actions</em> under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 or <em>undertakings</em> under the National Historic Preservation Act, thus exempting such projects from the review procedures required under those acts.</p>]]></summary-text>
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