Colorado Emergency Wildfire and Insect Infestations Response Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5756
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Colorado
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Heating
Income tax
National forests
School buildings
Tax credits
Taxation
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: 
Colorado Emergency Wildfire and Insect Infestations Response Act of 2006 - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, for an authorized hazardous fuel reduction project that is proposed to be conducted on federal land in Colorado, from being required to study, develop, or describe any alternative to the proposed agency action in the environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. 
 
Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to permit longer terms for agreements and contracts for stewardship contracting projects in Colorado. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to expand the Fuels for Schools program to include Colorado. Authorizes such Secretary to make grants in a specified amount each fiscal year to carry out such program in Colorado. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the placed in service date for the renewable electricity production credit for electricity produced by facilities using open-loop biomass to January 1, 2010. Makes electricity produced and sold from such facilities eligible for the full credit rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Introduced in House