[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 236 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 236

   To exempt prescribed burning on National Forest System lands from 
                  regulation under the Clean Air Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

  Mr. Rogan  (for himself, Mr. Dreier, 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 Forest System lands 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Forest Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON REGULATION OF PRESCRIBED BURNING.

    Section 118 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7418) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Prescribed Burning on National Forest System Lands.--
Notwithstanding subsection (a), for a period of 10 years after the date 
of the enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall suspend 
the application of this Act (other than this subsection) 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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