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SENATE 2867118th CongressPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 592.

Promoting Effective Forest Management Act of 2024

Last Action
11/21/2024

Actions

  • 2024-11-21Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 592.
  • 2024-11-21Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  • 2024-11-21Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  • 2024-11-19Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  • 2023-10-25Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
  • 2023-09-20Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • 2023-09-20Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2023-09-20 (00)

Promoting Effective Forest Management Act of 2023

This bill establishes additional requirements for the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to address forest health on public lands.

For example, the agencies must

  • establish annual mechanical thinning targets for the National Forest System and public lands, 
  • carry out regeneration harvests only in mature forests, 
  • develop a strategy to increase the use of livestock grazing to mitigate wildfires, 
  • support logging training through apprenticeships, and
  • utilize specified streamlined authorities for environmental review with respect to remedial action in certain vulnerable areas. 

Cosponsors (1)

  • Joseph Manchin (D-WV)

Subjects

  • Budget process
  • Climate change and greenhouse gases
  • Congressional oversight
  • Employee hiring
  • Employment and training programs
  • Fires
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Forests, forestry, trees
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Land use and conservation
  • Livestock
  • State and local government operations
  • Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
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