Title: CARR Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Combustion Avoidance along Rural Roads Act or the CARR Act
This bill exempts wildfire mitigation activities conducted within 300 feet of a road from all laws governing environmental review of proposed agency actions or protection of endangered or threatened species. Mitigation activities are those that are conducted by Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture on federal land that is administered by the National Park System, the Bureau of Land Management, or the Forest Service. Mitigation activities include forest thinning, hazardous fuel reduction, prescribed burning, and vegetation management.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 939 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 939

     To exempt certain wildfire mitigation activities from certain 
          environmental requirements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2021

  Mr. LaMalfa (for himself and Mr. Newhouse) 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 exempt certain wildfire mitigation activities from certain 
          environmental requirements, 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 ``Combustion Avoidance along Rural 
Roads Act'' or the ``CARR Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN WILDFIRE MITIGATION ACTIVITIES FROM 
              CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Wildfire mitigation activities of the Secretary of 
the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may be carried out 
without regard to the provisions of law specified in subsection (b).
    (b) Provisions of Law Specified.--The provisions of law specified 
in this section are all Federal, State, or other laws, regulations, and 
legal requirements of, deriving from, or related to the subject of, the 
following laws:
            (1) Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy 
        Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)).
            (2) The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
        seq.).
    (c) Wildfire Mitigation Activity.--For purposes of this section, 
the term ``wildfire mitigation activity''--
            (1) is an activity conducted on Federal land that is--
                    (A) under the administration of the Director of the 
                National Park System, the Director of the Bureau of 
                Land Management, or the Chief of the Forest Service; 
                and
                    (B) within 300 feet of any permanent or temporary 
                road, as measured from the center of such road; and
            (2) includes forest thinning, hazardous fuel reduction, 
        prescribed burning, and vegetation management.
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