United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 2647 (114th)
Emergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 2016
Introduced
4 June 2015
Last action
19 September 2016 · Reported
Status
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634.
Sponsors
Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4], Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-2], Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15], Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1], Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9], Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1], Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5], Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8], Rep. Tipton, Scott R. [R-CO-3], Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5], Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5], Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1], Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2], Rep. Palmer, Gary J. [R-AL-6]
Subjects
Environment, Agriculture, Education
Source updated
7 April 2025
Environment · Agriculture · Education
Summary
Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 This bill shall apply whenever the Department concerned, either the Department of Agriculture (USDA) with respect to National Forest System land or the Department of the Interior with respect to public lands, prepares an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) for a forest management activity that: is developed through a collaborative process; is proposed by a resource advisory committee; or is covered by a community wildfire protection plan. In such an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement, the Department concerned shall study, develop, and describe only these two alternatives: the forest management activity proposed, and the alternative of no action. In the case of the alternative of no action, the Department concerned shall evaluate: the effect of no action on forest health, habitat diversity, wildfire potential, and insect and disease potential; and the implications of a resulting decline in forest health, loss of habitat diversity, wildfire, or insect or disease infestation on domestic water costs, wildlife habitat loss, and other economic and social factors. A categorical exclusion is made available to the Department concerned to: (1) expedite specified critical response actions, (2) expedite salvage operations in response to catastrophic events, and (3) meet forest plan goals for early successional forests. (A "categorical exclusion" under NEPA is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is required.) Any environmental assessment for a salvage operation or reforestation activity proposed to be conducted on National Forest System lands or public lands impacted by a large-scale catastrophic event shall be completed within three months after that event. Any plaintiffs challenging a forest management activity developed through a collaborative process or proposed by a resource advisory committee shall be required to post a bond or other security. Repeals the Merchantable Timber Contracting Pilot Program under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. The Department concerned shall ensure that at least 50% of the project funds reserved by a participating county for carrying out a special project on federal land or certain nonfederal land under the same Act shall be made available only for projects that: include the sale of timber or other forest products; and implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems or restore and improve land health and water quality. The membership of a new resource advisory committee may lower from 15 to a minimum of six during a specified period ending September 30, 2020. The Forest Service shall conduct a self-sustaining resource advisory committee (RAC) program under which 10 RACs will propose projects intended to: accomplish forest management objectives or support community development, and generate receipts. A participating county shall be allowed to use certain funds to: (1) reimburse the county for law enforcement patrols performed on federal land, and (2) cover training costs and equipment purchases directly related to emergency services. The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 may obligate funds to cover potential cancellation or termination costs for an agreement or contract for stewardship end result contracting projects. Monies from an agreement or contract for a stewardship contracting project shall be available for expenditure without further appropriation to cover up to 25% of the cost of planning additional such projects. The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund shall be used to pay up to 50% of the costs of planning ecological restoration treatments on National Forest System land for each proposal selected under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. The State-Supported Forest Management Fund is established in the Treasury to cover the costs of the Department concerned to plan, carry out, and monitor a forest management activity on National Forest System or public land which is developed through a collaborative process, proposed by a resource advisory committee, or covered by a community wildfire protection plan. The Department of the Interior shall take specified administrative action under the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 within 120 days of receiving a request from an Indian Tribe to enter into an agreement or contract to carry out a project to protect Indian forest land or rangeland (including bordering or adjacent federal land). The Secretary concerned may treat federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting forest land management activities under the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act if the federal forest land is located within a specified area. Courts reviewing an agency action shall balance short- and long-term effects of forest management activities in considering injunctive relief. The Forest Supervisor of a National Forest System unit must perform certain tasks when considering whether to decommission a defined maintenance level one or two system road within a designated high fire-prone area. USDA may not apply to National Forest System lands any of the amendments to forest plans adopted in the Eastside Screens requirements. USDA shall require, under the Knutson-Vanderburg Act, each purchaser of national-forest timber to make certain deposits of money in addition to the payments for the timber to cover the cost to the federal government of certain forest land management activities. National Wilderness Preservation System lands meeting certain criteria are exempt from this Act.
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Timeline
4 June 2015
Introduced
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.
Source: IntroReferral
4 June 2015
Introduced
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.
Source: IntroReferral
4 June 2015
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
4 June 2015
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
9 June 2015
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Source: Committee
10 June 2015
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
11 June 2015
Vote
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 15.
Source: Committee
11 June 2015
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
11 June 2015
Committee
Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
Source: Committee
17 June 2015
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Source: Committee
17 June 2015
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
25 June 2015
Calendars
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 137.
Source: Calendars
25 June 2015
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 114-185, Part I.
Source: Committee
25 June 2015
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 114-185, Part I.
Source: Committee
7 July 2015
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 347 Reported to House. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Providing for consideration of H.R. 5 and H.R. 2647.
Source: Floor
8 July 2015
Passed
Rule H. Res. 347 passed House.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 347. (consideration: CR H4985-4986)
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Passed
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Vote
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 262 - 167 (Roll no. 428).
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 262 - 167 (Roll no. 428).
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Passed
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H4995-5002)
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H5006)
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2647.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Providing for consideration of H.R. 5 and H.R. 2647.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2647 as unfinished business.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Passed
On motion that the Committee now rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
Mr. Bishop (UT) moved that the Committee now rise.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
The Speaker designated the Honorable George Holding to act as Chairman of the Committee.
Source: Floor
9 July 2015
Floor
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 347 and Rule XVIII.
Source: Floor
13 July 2015
Introduced
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Source: IntroReferral
13 September 2016
Reported
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Source: Committee
19 September 2016
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634.
Source: Calendars
19 September 2016
Reported
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Roberts with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Source: Committee
19 September 2016
Reported
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Roberts with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Source: Committee
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
- Reported to Senate · 19 September 2016 · Download file
- Referred in Senate · 13 July 2015 · Download file
- Engrossed in House · 9 July 2015 · Download file
- Reported in House · 25 June 2015 · Download file
- Introduced in House · 4 June 2015 · Download file
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Reported to Senate (text)
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Reported to Senate (text)
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Reported to Senate (PDF)
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Reported to Senate with amendment(s)
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Referred in Senate (text)
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Passed House amended
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Reported to House amended, Part II
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Reported to House amended, Part I
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Introduced in House
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Sponsors
- Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-2] · D · Sponsor
- Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Tipton, Scott R. [R-CO-3] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Palmer, Gary J. [R-AL-6] · R · Cosponsor
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Related records
- related to → National Forest Collaborative Incentive Act of 2015
- related to → Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2015
- related to → National Forest Small Tracts Act Amendments Act of 2015
- related to → Kisatchie National Forest Land Conveyance Act
- related to ← Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to support State and local accountability for public education, protect State and local authority, inform parents of the performance of their children's schools, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2647) to expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act and improve forest management activities in units of the National Forest System derived from the public domain, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and on tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes.
- related to ← To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to establish wildfire on Federal lands as a major disaster.
- related to ← Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2015
- related to ← Kisatchie National Forest Land Conveyance Act
- related to ← Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016
- related to ← Emergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 2016
- amends ← Amendment sought to strike Sec. 203, which relates to the prohibition on restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and injunctions pending appeals and to strike Title III, which relates to the imposition of a bond requirement as part of a potential legal challenge of certain forest management activities.
- amends ← Amendment provides that stewardship contracts awarded prior to Feb. 7, 2014 shall be modified by the Secretary to include fire liability provisions.
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Sources
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