[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 9, 1994]
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          H.R. 4742, CALIFORNIA FIRE SUPPRESSION BILL OF 1994

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, throughout the West, our forests are 
erupting in flames. Whether it be Colorado, Washington State, or my 
State of California, emergency conditions call for immediate action.
  For this reason, I have introduced H.R. 4742. By declaring a state of 
emergency on national forests in California, this legislation will free 
our professional foresters from restrictions that are currently 
preventing them from reducing natural fuels and saving our forests. 
Without the immediate reduction of these fuels, our forests in 
California, which have experienced 7 drought years during the last 8 
years, will continue to be destroyed by out-of-control wildfires.
  This bill could also be amended to include other western States 
facing the same crisis. If we are truly serious about saving our 
forests, we must pass H.R. 4742 immediately.

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