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HR 178 · in committee · significant

To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out activities to suppress wildfires, and for other purposes.

What this bill does

  • The bill requires the Forest Service to suppress wildfires on high-risk federal lands within 24 hours of detection using all available resources.
  • This affects Forest Service operations in areas with severe drought, extreme fire activity, or high wildfire exposure rankings.
  • The bill restricts when the Forest Service can use controlled burns and requires coordination with state and local firefighting agencies.

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  1. 01

    How would the 24-hour suppression requirement affect the Forest Service's ability to allocate firefighting resources across multiple simultaneous fires?

  2. 02

    What trade-offs might result from restricting controlled burns while increasing rapid-response suppression on high-risk federal lands?

  3. 03

    How should the Forest Service balance coordination with state and local agencies when federal resources are needed urgently under this requirement?

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Sponsor · R-CA-5

Tom McClintock

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Introduced 2026-01-08

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2026-01-08 · house · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-429, Part I.

  2. 2026-01-08 · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-429, Part I.

  3. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  4. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  5. 2025-02-07 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

  6. 2025-01-03 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  7. 2025-01-03 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  8. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  9. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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