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H. Rept. 114-185 1 (2015-06-25)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxsxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Gp 114TH CONGRESS } 1 REPT. 114-185 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 RESILIENT FEDERAL FORESTS ACT OF 2015 JUNE 25, 2015.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. CONAWAY, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 2647] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2647) to expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act and improve forest management activities in units of the Na- tional Forest System derived from the public domain, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and on tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone for- ested lands, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I-EXPEDITED ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS AND AVAILABILITY OF CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS TO EXPEDITE FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES Sec. 101. Analysis of only two alternatives (action versus no action) in proposed collaborative forest manage- ment activities. Sec. 102. Categorical exclusion to expedite certain critical response actions. Sec. 103. Categorical exclusion to expedite salvage operations in response to catastrophic events. Sec. 104. Categorical exclusion to meet forest plan goals for early successional forests. Sec. 105. Clarification of existing categorical exclusion authority related to insect and disease infestation. Sec. 106. Categorical exclusion to improve, restore, and reduce the risk of wildfire. Sec. 107. Compliance with forest plan. TITLE II-SALVAGE AND REFORESTATION IN RESPONSE TO CATASTROPHIC EVENTS Sec. 201. Expedited salvage operations and reforestation activities following large-scale catastrophic events. Sec. 202. Compliance with forest plan. 95-229

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