[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7666 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7666

   To require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a strategy to 
   increase opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as a means of 
                        wildfire risk reduction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2024

  Mr. LaMalfa (for himself and Mr. Vasquez) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a strategy to 
   increase opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as a means of 
                        wildfire risk reduction.

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

SECTION 1. UTILIZING GRAZING FOR WILDFIRE RISK REDUCTION.

    The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the U.S. 
Forest Service, in coordination with holders of permits to graze 
livestock on Federal land, shall develop a strategy to increase 
opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as wildfire risk reduction 
strategy, including--
            (1) completion of reviews (as required under the National 
        Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (U.S.C. 4321 et seq.)) to 
        allow permitted grazing on vacant grazing allotments during 
        instances of drought, wildfire or other natural disasters that 
        disrupt grazing on allotments already permitted;
            (2) use of targeted grazing;
            (3) increase use of temporary permits to promote targeted 
        fuels reduction and reduction of invasive annual grasses;
            (4) increased use of grazing as a postfire recovery and 
        restoration strategy, where appropriate; and
            (5) use all applicable authorities under the law.
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