Rocky Mountain FIRES Act

Bill: 109-hr-4875
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Animals
Arizona
Biomass energy
Colorado
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy facilities
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Forest management
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Grants-in-aid
Idaho
Income tax
Insect control
Landowners
Law
Logging
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
Pests
Planning
Refuse and refuse disposal
South Dakota
Subsidies
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Tree diseases
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Utah
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Watersheds
Wood
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Rocky Mountain Forest Insects Response Enhancement and Support Act or the Rocky Mountain FIRES Act - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to require the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to allocate not less than 70% of the funds allocated for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the Rocky Mountain region for: (1) projects in the wildland-urban interface; and (2) lands that are in proximity to a municipal water supply system or a stream feeding such a system within a municipal watershed and that have been identified for such projects in community wildfire protection plans. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to designate insect-emergency areas.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to at-risk communities in the Rocky Mountain region to assist such communities to prepare or revise a community wildfire protection plan. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish at least one collection point for the placement of vegetative material removed from federal or other lands as part of hazardous fuel reduction projects. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award stewardship contracts to, or enter in agreements with, owners of lands contiguous to federal lands managed by the Secretary under which the landowners may carry out a fuel-reduction project or other activities on the contiguous federal lands in order to reduce the extent to which the federal lands or other lands could be affected by wildfires. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E267-268)
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House