[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2601 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2601

 To exempt prescribed burning on national forestlands from regulation 
                        under the Clean Air Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 1, 1997

   Mr. Rogan (for himself, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Gallegly, and Mr. McKeon) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exempt prescribed burning on national forestlands from regulation 
                        under the Clean Air Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MORATORIUM ON REGULATION OF PRESCRIBED BURNING.

    Section 118 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7418) is amended by 
adding the following at the end thereof:
    ``(e) Prescribed Burning on National Forest Lands.--Notwithstanding 
subsection (a), for a period of 10 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall suspend the application 
of this Act to prescribed burning carried out by the Secretary of 
Agriculture on national forest system lands for the purpose of 
demonstrating that an aggressive prescribed burning program over time 
will lower the total amount of particulate produced from the combined 
outputs of prescribed fires and wildfires.''.
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