To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Government Operations, Finance.
Who Benefits and How
environmental regulators and natural-resource users 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, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H4BC5C977BE8A4F3AB980A670AB63D472: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the National Prescribed Fire Act of 2024. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
- Section H9135AEEE3D424692B1B1A891291AC825: 2. Findings Congress finds that— in 2018, the Forest Service Fire Modeling Institute determined that 63,070,000 acres of National Forest System land and...
- Section H063A644D8DE647CAB7E697A337E39BA7: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term Federal land means— public lands (as defined in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43...
- Section HB4FEE9078DF14FF4A918FB14D8F81955: 101. Prescribed fire accounts In this section, the term Secretary concerned means— the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to an account established by this...
- Section H27F38C1FF7294E96BCEBD51BAFBE5E38: 102. Policies and practices Beginning with the first fiscal year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act, and for each of the 9 fiscal years...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations, Finance
Primary Purpose
This bill, To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, to acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Schrier (for herself and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "administrator_of_epa"
- → Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- "secretary_of_defense"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "secretary_of_agriculture"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a decision document prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) that— covers a unit of the National Forest System, a Bureau of Land Management district, or a subunit thereof
a State law that establishes the standard of care in a civil suit against a certified prescribed fire manager for an escaped prescribed fire to be gross negligence, if the certified prescribed fire manager— obtained a permit for the prescribed fire
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