To amend the Clean Air Act to modify the handling of air quality monitoring with respect to prescribed fires, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Treats prescribed fires more favorably under the Clean Air Act exceptional-events process and directs EPA to revise the governing rules.
Who Benefits and How
Federal, State, Tribal, and local land managers could face fewer air-quality compliance obstacles when using prescribed fire to prevent larger wildfire emissions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
EPA and air regulators would need to revise and administer the rules, and prescribed-fire treatment could complicate some air-quality determinations.
Key Provisions
- Adds prescribed fires to the exceptional-events framework and revises key definitions and treatment rules.
- Directs EPA to publish and finalize revised regulations for reviewing State determinations and handling monitoring data influenced by exceptional events or prescribed fires.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Treats prescribed fires more favorably under the Clean Air Act exceptional-events process and directs EPA to revise the governing rules.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Treats prescribed fires more favorably under the Clean Air Act exceptional-events process and directs EPA to revise the governing rules.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Land managers using prescribed fire as a fuel-management and wildfire-prevention tool
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- EPA and air regulators revising and administering the new exceptional-events framework
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Curtis (for himself and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
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Land managers using prescribed fire under the revised exceptional-events framework
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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