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Union Calendar No. 570 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8790 
[Report No. 118–674, Part I] 
To expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and im-
prove forest management activities on National Forest System lands, 
on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, and on Tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone 
forested lands, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 18, 2024 
Mr. WESTERMAN (for himself, Mr. PETERS, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. 
STAUBER, Mr. COSTA, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. CURTIS, 
Mr. BERA, Mr. DUARTE, Mr. MOYLAN, and Mr. GOSAR) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 
and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Science, Space, 
and Technology, 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 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 
Additional sponsors: Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. CARL, Ms. BOEBERT, Mrs. CHAVEZ- 
DEREMER, Mr. BENTZ, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, Mr. COLLINS, Mr. 
GARAMENDI, Mrs. KIM of California, Mr. ZINKE, and Mr. JOHNSON of 
South Dakota 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 
Committees on Agriculture and Science, Space, and Technology 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 June 18, 2024] 
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A BILL 
To expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 and improve forest management activities on 
National Forest System lands, on public lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, 
and on Tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, 
fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes. 
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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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fix 
Our Forests Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—LANDSCAPE-SCALE RESTORATION 
Subtitle A—Addressing Emergency Wildfire Risks in High Priority Firesheds 
Sec. 101. Designation of fireshed management areas. 
Sec. 102. Fireshed center. 
Sec. 103. Fireshed registry. 
Sec. 104. Shared stewardship. 
Sec. 105. Fireshed assessments. 
Sec. 106. Emergency fireshed management. 
Sec. 107. Sunset. 
Subtitle B—Expanding Collaborative Tools to Reduce Wildfire Risk and 
Improve Forest Health 
Sec. 111. Modification of the treatment of certain revenue and payments under 
good neighbor agreements. 
Sec. 112. Fixing stewardship end result contracting. 
Sec. 113. Intra-agency strike teams. 
Sec. 114. Locally-led restoration. 
Sec. 115. Joint Chiefs landscape restoration partnership program. 
Sec. 116. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program. 
Subtitle C—Litigation Reform 
Sec. 121. Commonsense litigation reform. 
Sec. 122. Consultation on forest plans. 
TITLE II—PROTECTING COMMUNITIES IN THE WILDLAND-URBAN 
INTERFACE 
Sec. 201. Community wildfire risk reduction program. 
Sec. 202. Community wildfire defense research program. 
Sec. 203. Vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and mainte-
nance relating to electric transmission and distribution facility 
rights-of-way. 
Sec. 204. Categorical exclusion for electric utility lines rights-of-way. 
Sec. 205. Seeds of success. 
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