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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-915
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
FIRE SAFE ELECTRICAL CORRIDORS ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 6012]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6012) to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit
removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System
land without conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amend-
ment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2024.
SEC. 2. PERMITS AND AGREEMENTS WITH ELECTRICAL UTILITIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.-In any special use permit or easement on National Forest Sys-
tem lands or land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management pro-
vided to an electrical utility, the Secretary of Agriculture or Secretary of the Inte-
rior, as applicable, may provide permission to cut and remove trees or other vegeta-
tion, including hazardous vegetation that increases fire risk, from within the vicinity
of distribution lines or transmission lines without requiring a separate timber sale,
if that cutting and removal is consistent with-
(1) the applicable land management plan; and
(2) other applicable environmental laws (including regulations).
(b) USE OF PROCEEDS.-A special use permit or easement that includes permission
for cutting and removal described in subsection (a) shall include a requirement that,
if the applicable electrical utility sells any portion of the material removed under
the permit or easement, the electrical utility shall provide to the Secretary of Agri-
culture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, or the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, any proceeds
received from the sale, less any transportation costs incurred in the sale.
(c) EFFECT.-Nothing in subsection (b) shall require the sale of any material re-
moved under a permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal
described in subsection (a).
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