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Union Calendar No. 293 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3188 

[Report No. 113–394, Part I] 

To expedite the planning and implementation of salvage timber sales as 

part of Forest Service and Department of the Interior restoration and 

rehabilitation activities for lands within the Stanislaus National Forest 

and Yosemite National Park and Bureau of Land Management lands 

adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire in California. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 

Mr. MCCLINTOCK (for himself, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. 

LAMALFA, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, Mr. NUNES, Mr. 

COOK, Mr. DENHAM, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, and Mr. VALADAO) 

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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Additional sponsors: Mr. AMODEI and Mr. PEARCE

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Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with amendments 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

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The Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of the 

Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on September 26, 2013] 


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A BILL 

To expedite the planning and implementation of salvage timber sales as part of Forest Service and Department 

of the Interior restoration and rehabilitation activities 

for lands within the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park and Bureau of Land Management 

lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire in California. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rim Fire Emergency 

5 Salvage Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXPEDITED SALVAGE TIMBER SALES IN RESPONSE 

7 TO THE CALIFORNIA RIM FIRE. 

8 (a) SALVAGE TIMBER SALES REQUIRED.—As part of 

9 the restoration and rehabilitation activities undertaken on 

10 the lands within the Stanislaus National Forest and the 

11 Bureau of Land Management lands adversely impacted by 

12 the 2013 Rim Fire in California, the Secretary of Agri13 culture, with respect to affected Stanislaus National Forest 

14 lands, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to af15 fected Bureau of Land Management lands, shall promptly 

16 plan and implement salvage timber sales of dead, damaged, 

17 or downed timber resulting from that wildfire. 

18 (b) EXPEDITED IMPLEMENTATION.— 

19 (1) LEGAL SUFFICIENCY.—Due to the extraor20 dinary severity of the Rim Fire occurring on the Fed21 eral lands described in subsection (a), salvage timber 

22 sales conducted under such subsection shall proceed 

23 immediately and to completion notwithstanding any 

24 other provision of law, including the National Envi25 ronmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 


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1 seq.), section 14 of the National Forest Management 

2 Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a), the Forest and Range3 land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 

4 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.), and the Federal Land Policy 

5 and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 

6 seq.). 

7 (2) ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REVIEW.— 

8 Salvage timber sales conducted under subsection (a) 

9 shall not be subject to— 

10 (A) administrative review, including, in the 

11 case of the Forest Service, the notice, comment, 

12 and appeal requirements of section 322 of the 

13 Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 

14 Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public Law 102–381; 

15 16 U.S.C. 1612 note); or 

16 (B) judicial review in any court of the 

17 United States. 

Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to expedite the 

planning and implementation of salvage timber sales as 

part of Forest Service and Department of the Interior 

restoration and rehabilitation activities for lands within 

the Stanislaus National Forest and Bureau of Land 

Management lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim 

Fire in California.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 293 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3188 

[Report No. 113–394, Part I] 

A BILL 

To expedite the planning and implementation of 

in California. lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire tional Park and Bureau of Land Management Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite Narehabilitation activities for lands within the and Department of the Interior restoration and salvage timber sales as part of Forest Service 

APRIL 1, 2014 

Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with 

amendments 

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The Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to 

Union and ordered to be printed the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 


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