[History of Bills, Volume 143 (1997)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 2458--A bill to provide new authority to the Secretary of 
    Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to safeguard 
    communities, lives, and property from catastrophic wildfire by 
    eliminating hazardous fuels buildup, and to undertake other forest 
    management projects to protect noncommodity resources, on Federal 
    lands where wildlands abut, or are located in close proximity to, 
    urban areas; to the Committees on Agriculture; 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.


By Mrs. CHENOWETH (for herself, Mr. Herger, and Mr. Bob Schaffer), 
H7261 [11SE]

  Cosponsors added, H7601 [18SE], H8265 [30SE]