I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3432 
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 Gila and Lincoln National 
Forests and for Bureau of Land Management lands in New Mexico 
adversely impacted by the 2012 and 2013 fire seasons, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 30, 2013 
Mr. PEARCE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Re-
sources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
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 Gila and Lincoln National Forests 
and for Bureau of Land Management lands in New 
Mexico adversely impacted by the 2012 and 2013 fire 
seasons, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘New Mexico Wildland 
Fire Emergency Salvage Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPEDITED SALVAGE TIMBER SALES IN RESPONSE 
TO THE SILVER, LITTLE BEAR, AND WHITE-
WATER-BALDY COMPLEX FIRES IN NEW MEX-
ICO. 
(a) SALVAGE TIMBER SALES REQUIRED.—As part of 
the restoration and rehabilitation activities undertaken on 
lands within the Gila National Forest and Lincoln Na-
tional Forest and on Bureau of Land Management lands 
adversely impacted by the 2012 Little Bear and White-
water-Baldy Complex Fires and the 2013 Silver Fire in 
New Mexico, the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to 
the affected National Forest System lands, and the Sec-
retary of the Interior, with respect to affected Bureau of 
Land Management lands, shall promptly plan and imple-
ment salvage timber sales of dead, damaged, or downed 
timber resulting from those wildfires. 
(b) LEGAL SUFFICIENCY.—Due to the extraordinary 
severity of the wildfires referred to in subsection (a), sal-
vage 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 seq.), 
section 14 of the National Forest Management Act of 
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1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a), the Forest and Rangeland Renew-
able Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et 
seq.), the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and laws related to the 
management of timber on the lands covered by such sub-
section. 
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REVIEW.—Sal-
vage timber sales conducted under subsection (a) shall not 
be subject to— 
(1) administrative review, including, in the case 
of the Forest Service, the notice, comment, and ap-
peal 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 
(2) judicial review in any court of the United 
States. 
(d) LIMITATION; RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Noth-
ing in this section shall be construed in a manner that 
would affect the land management plan applicable to any 
area designated as a component of the National Wilder-
ness Preservation System under section 3 of the Wilder-
ness Act (16 U.S.C. 1132) and containing lands covered 
by subsection (a). 
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