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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4295 
To provide mandatory funding for hazardous fuels reduction projects on 
certain Federal land, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 7, 2025 
Ms. HOYLE of Oregon 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 provide mandatory funding for hazardous fuels reduction 
projects on certain Federal land, 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 ‘‘Wildfire Resilient 
Communities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR HAZARDOUS FUELS REDUCTION 
PROJECTS ON CERTAIN FEDERAL LAND. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) AGENCY HEAD.—The term ‘‘agency head’’ 
means— 
(A) the Director of the National Park 
Service; 
(B) the Chief of the Forest Service; 
(C) the Director of the Bureau of Land 
Management; 
(D) the Director of the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service; and 
(E) the Director of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs. 
(2) AT-RISK COMMUNITY; FIRE REGIME I; FIRE 
REGIME II; FIRE REGIME III.—The terms ‘‘at-risk 
community’’, ‘‘fire regime I’’, ‘‘fire regime II’’, and 
‘‘fire regime III’’ have the meanings given those 
terms in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Res-
toration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6511). 
(3) COVERED LAND.—The term ‘‘covered land’’ 
means Federal land under the jurisdiction of the ap-
plicable agency head. 
(4) 
HAZARDOUS
FUELS
REDUCTION 
PROJECT.—The term ‘‘hazardous fuels reduction 
project’’ means the removal or modification of flam-
mable vegetation or woody debris through prescribed 
fire, thinning, brush removal, mastication, pruning, 
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slash treatment, or a combination of those methods, 
on the condition that the method is ecologically ap-
propriate, cost-effective, and selected on a site-spe-
cific basis. 
(b) HAZARDOUS FUELS REDUCTION PROJECTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The agency heads shall 
carry out hazardous fuels reduction projects on cov-
ered land. 
(2) PROJECT
PRIORITIES.—In carrying out 
paragraph (1), the agency heads shall prioritize haz-
ardous fuels reduction projects that are— 
(A) conducted in areas that— 
(i) are within or adjacent to— 
(I) at-risk communities; or 
(II) high-value watersheds; 
(ii) have very high wildfire hazard po-
tential; or 
(iii) are in fire regime I, fire regime 
II, or fire regime III; or 
(B) designed to integrate and simulta-
neously advance 2 or more of the goals estab-
lished in the report of the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior enti-
tled ‘‘The National Strategy: the Final Phase of 
the Development of the National Cohesive 
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Wildland Fire Management Strategy’’ and 
dated April 2014 and the update entitled ‘‘Na-
tional Cohesive Wildland Fire Management 
Strategy Addendum Update’’ and dated Janu-
ary 2023— 
(i) to create fire-adapted communities; 
(ii) to restore and maintain resilient 
landscapes; and 
(iii) to achieve safe, effective fire re-
sponse. 
(c) FUNDING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—On the first October 1 fol-
lowing the date of enactment of this Act, out of any 
funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the 
agency heads, in accordance with an allocation for-
mula established by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in 
consultation 
with 
the 
agency 
heads, 
$30,000,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
(2) RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE.—The agency 
heads shall be entitled to receive, shall accept, and 
shall use to carry out this section the funds trans-
ferred under paragraph (1), without further appro-
priation. 
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(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(I) address standardized monitoring ques-
tions and indicators;’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)(3)(A)— 
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(B) in clause (ii), by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) include a Federal Government 
staffing plan for providing support to col-
laborative processes established pursuant 
to subsection (b)(2);’’; 
(3) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(ii) in subparagraph (F), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting a semi-
colon; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(G) whether the proposal seeks to use in-
novative implementation mechanisms, including 
conservation finance agreements, good neighbor 
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agreements entered into under section 8206 of 
the Agricultural Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 
2113a), and similar implementation mecha-
nisms; 
‘‘(H) whether the proposal seeks to reduce 
the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire or increase 
ecological restoration activities— 
‘‘(i) within areas across land owner-
ships, including State, Tribal, and private 
land; and 
‘‘(ii) within the wildland-urban inter-
face; and 
‘‘(I) whether the proposal seeks to enhance 
watershed health and drinking water sources.’’; 
and 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘10’’ and inserting ‘‘20’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘2’’ and inserting ‘‘4’’; 
(4) in subsection (e)(3), by inserting ‘‘conflict 
resolution or collaborative governance,’’ before ‘‘and 
woody’’; and 
(5) 
in 
subsection 
(f)(6), 
by 
striking 
‘‘$80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 
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2023’’ and inserting ‘‘$100,000,000 for fiscal year 
2026 and each fiscal year thereafter’’. 
SEC. 5. COUNTY STEWARDSHIP FUND. 
Section 604 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act 
of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (j) as sub-
section (k); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (i) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(j) COUNTY STEWARDSHIP FUND.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
Treasury of the United States a fund to be known 
as the ‘County Stewardship Fund’ (referred to in 
this section as the ‘Fund’), to be administered by 
the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) DEPOSITS.—Each fiscal year, with respect 
to each contract under subsection (b), there shall be 
deposited in the Fund an amount equal to the great-
er of— 
‘‘(A) 25 percent of the appraised value of 
the forest products sold under the applicable 
contract, to be transferred from the general 
fund of the Treasury; and 
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‘‘(B) 25 percent of the excess receipts from 
the applicable contract, as authorized under 
subsection (g)(2). 
‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts in the Fund 
shall— 
‘‘(A) be used only for purposes described 
in paragraph (4); and 
‘‘(B) remain available until expended. 
‘‘(4) PURPOSES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each fiscal year, the 
Chief or the Director, as applicable, shall dis-
tribute from amounts in the Fund to each 
county in which a contract under subsection (b) 
was carried out on Federal land in the county 
during the preceding fiscal year a payment of 
an amount equal to 25 percent of the receipts 
generated from that contract. 
‘‘(B) USE OF FUNDS.—A county receiving 
a payment under subparagraph (A) may use 
the payment for any governmental purposes.’’. 
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