A BILL 
To expedite the planning and implementation of salvage tim-
ber sales as part of Forest Service and Department 
of the Interior restoration and rehabilitation activities 
for lands within the Stanislaus National Forest and Yo-
semite National Park and Bureau of Land Management 
lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire in Cali-
fornia. 
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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 ‘‘Rim Fire Emergency 
Salvage Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPEDITED SALVAGE TIMBER SALES IN RESPONSE 
TO THE CALIFORNIA RIM FIRE. 
(a) SALVAGE TIMBER SALES REQUIRED.—As part of 
the restoration and rehabilitation activities undertaken on 
the lands within the Stanislaus National Forest and the 
Bureau of Land Management lands adversely impacted by 
the 2013 Rim Fire in California, the Secretary of Agri-
culture, with respect to affected Stanislaus National Forest 
lands, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to af-
fected Bureau of Land Management lands, shall promptly 
plan and implement salvage timber sales of dead, damaged, 
or downed timber resulting from that wildfire. 
(b) EXPEDITED IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(1) LEGAL SUFFICIENCY.—Due to the extraor-
dinary severity of the Rim Fire occurring on the Fed-
eral lands described in subsection (a), salvage timber 
sales conducted under such subsection shall proceed 
immediately and to completion notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, including the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
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seq.), section 14 of the National Forest Management 
Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a), the Forest and Range-
land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 
U.S.C. 1600 et seq.), and the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 
seq.). 
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REVIEW.— 
Salvage timber sales conducted under subsection (a) 
shall not be subject to— 
(A) administrative review, including, in the 
case of the Forest Service, the notice, comment, 
and appeal requirements of section 322 of the 
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public Law 102–381; 
16 U.S.C. 1612 note); or 
(B) judicial review in any court of the 
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 
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 Na-
tional Park and Bureau of Land Management 
lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire 
in California. 
APRIL 1, 2014 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with 
amendments 
APRIL 1, 2014 
The Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to 
the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered to be printed 
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