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HR 184 · in committee · significant

Action Versus No Action Act

What this bill does

  • This bill limits environmental reviews for forest management on public lands to comparing the proposed activity against taking no action.
  • It affects the Forest Service and Department of Interior when reviewing timber projects on certain public lands, especially in insect and disease treatment areas.
  • The bill streamlines the environmental review process by reducing the number of alternatives that must be evaluated in assessments.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would limiting environmental reviews to only compare timber projects against no action affect the Forest Service's ability to evaluate different management approaches?

  2. 02

    Who benefits from faster environmental reviews for forest management, and what environmental or economic risks might result from streamlined assessments?

  3. 03

    What evidence supports the premise that comparing projects only to no action will improve outcomes for insect and disease treatment on public lands?

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Sponsor · R-CA-5

Tom McClintock

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Introduced 2025-02-07

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-02-07 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

  2. 2025-01-03 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.

  3. 2025-01-03 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.

  4. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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