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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2492 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest 
System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands, respectively, with-
out conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2025 
Mr. CARBAJAL
(for himself, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. COSTA, and Mr. 
FITZPATRICK) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 
of the Interior to permit removal of trees around elec-
trical lines on National Forest System lands and Bureau 
of Land Management lands, respectively, without con-
ducting a timber sale, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fire Safe Electrical 
Corridors Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. PERMITS AND AGREEMENTS WITH ELECTRICAL 
UTILITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In any special use permit or ease-
ment on covered Federal lands provided to an electrical 
utility, the Secretary concerned may provide permission to 
cut and remove trees or other vegetation from within the 
vicinity of distribution lines or transmission lines without 
requiring a separate timber sale, if that cutting and re-
moval is consistent with— 
(1) any applicable land and resource manage-
ment plan; and 
(2) other applicable environmental laws (includ-
ing regulations). 
(b) USE OF PROCEEDS.—A special use permit or 
easement that includes permission for cutting and removal 
described in subsection (a) shall include a requirement 
that, if the applicable electrical utility sells any portion 
of the material removed under the permit or easement, 
the electrical utility shall provide to the Secretary con-
cerned any proceeds received from the sale, less any trans-
portation costs incurred in the sale. 
(c) EFFECT.—Nothing in subsection (b) shall require 
the sale of any material removed under a permit or ease-
ment that includes permission for cutting and removal de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) COVERED
FEDERAL
LANDS.—The term 
‘‘covered Federal lands’’ means— 
(A) National Forest System lands; and 
(B) lands managed by the Bureau of Land 
Management. 
(2) SECRETARY CONCERNED.—The term ‘‘Sec-
retary concerned’’ means— 
(A) with respect to National Forest Sys-
tem lands, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
through the Chief of the Forest Service; and 
(B) with respect to lands managed by the 
Bureau of Land Management, the Secretary of 
the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management. 
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