To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands, respectively, without conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
Authorizes the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to let electrical utilities cut and remove trees or other vegetation near transmission and distribution lines on covered federal lands through permits or easements without a separate timber sale, subject to land-management plans and environmental law.
Who Benefits and How
Electrical utilities and communities near federal-land power corridors could benefit from faster vegetation management that reduces wildfire and reliability risks without having to run a separate timber-sale process.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior must administer the new permit authority, and utilities that sell removed material must remit sale proceeds to the government after transportation costs.
Key Provisions
- Allows special use permits and easements on National Forest System and Bureau of Land Management lands to include vegetation-cutting and removal authority near power lines without a separate timber sale.
- Requires the work to remain consistent with applicable land and resource management plans and environmental laws.
- Requires utilities that sell removed material to pay the Secretary concerned the sale proceeds minus transportation costs.
- Defines covered federal lands and the relevant secretaries for Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management property.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Authorizes the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to let electrical utilities cut and remove trees or other vegetation near transmission and distribution lines on covered federal lands through permits or easements without a separate timber sale, subject to land-management plans and environmental law.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Wildfire, Public Lands
Primary Purpose
Authorizes the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to let electrical utilities cut and remove trees or other vegetation near transmission and distribution lines on covered federal lands through permits or easements without a separate timber sale, subject to land-management plans and environmental law.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Electrical utilities and communities that want faster wildfire-mitigation work around federal-land power lines
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and utilities that must administer the permit conditions and revenue-remittance rule
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Mr. Carbajal (for himself, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Costa, and Mr. …
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