Title: FIR Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Forest Information Reform Act or the FIR Act
This bill specifies that neither the Department of Agriculture nor the Department of the Interior may be required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan when a species is listed as threatened or endangered, critical habitat is designated, or new information concerning a listed species or critical habitat becomes available.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1174 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1174

 To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide 
that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are 
 not required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan or 
   land use plan under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2021

 Mr. Rosendale (for himself, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Newhouse, 
 Mr. Gosar, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Baird, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. Herrell, and Mrs. 
   Boebert) 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 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide 
that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are 
 not required to reinitiate consultation on a land management plan or 
   land use plan under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Forest Information Reform Act'' or 
the ``FIR Act''.

SEC. 2. NO ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION REQUIRED.

    (a) Forest Service Plans.--Section 6(d)(2) of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1604(d)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) No additional consultation required under certain 
        circumstances.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
        Secretary shall not be required to reinitiate consultation 
        under section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
        U.S.C. 1536(a)(2)) or section 402.16 of title 50, Code of 
        Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation), on a land 
        management plan approved, amended, or revised under this 
        section when a species is listed, critical habitat is 
        designated, or new information concerning a listed species or 
        critical habitat becomes available.''.
    (b) Bureau of Land Management Plans.--Section 202 of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) No Additional Consultation Required Under Certain 
Circumstances.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary shall not be required to reinitiate consultation under 
section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1536(a)(2)) or section 402.16 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations 
(or a successor regulation), on a land use plan approved, amended, or 
revised under this section when a species is listed, critical habitat 
is designated, or new information concerning a listed species or 
critical habitat becomes available.''.
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