TORCH Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, TORCH Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers. The main policy domain is Energy, Environment, Agriculture.
Who Benefits and How
energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HEB3EBC877D0044C69445FB07CCAB7D40: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Targeted Operations to Remove Catastrophic Hazards Act or the TORCH Act. The table of contents...
- Section H78D164EA67944980A784860D924C59E4: 101. Categorical exclusion for high-priority hazard tree activities Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture...
- Section HC45D9E5C465945F4902D5194A95C20BB: 102. Utilizing timber sales on National Forest System land for extreme risk reduction Section 14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a)...
- Section H09216EAAE98541189BC202ED46EF15FC: 103. Utilizing grazing for wildfire risk reduction The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, in coordination with holders...
- Section HF26CDBA54ED6499AB5E3A4D4B6A00106: 104. Amendments to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to improve wildfire mitigation Section 103(e)(5) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, TORCH Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Environment, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
This bill, TORCH Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to …
Introduced in House
Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_agriculture"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a standing tree that— presents a visible hazard to people or property due to conditions such as deterioration of, or damage to, the root system, trunk, stem, or limbs of the tree, or due to the direction or lean of the tree, as determined by the Secretary
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