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HR 2517 · in committee · niche

Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The bill reauthorizes and expands Forest Service grant programs that fund wood energy systems and innovative wood products facilities through 2030.
  • Community organizations, forest product manufacturers, and wood industry businesses seeking to build or upgrade wood facilities are affected.
  • The bill increases maximum grant amounts and the percentage of project costs grants can cover, with priority given to forest products manufacturing.

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Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How might expanding wood energy facilities affect timber harvesting levels and forest management practices in different regions?

  2. 02

    What specific outcomes or metrics should communities use to measure whether these grant-funded wood facilities create lasting economic benefits?

  3. 03

    How do the grant priorities for forest products manufacturing compare to other potential uses of these federal forestry funds?

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Sponsor · D-WA-3

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

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Introduced 2025-04-18

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-04-18 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

  2. 2025-03-31 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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. 2025-03-31 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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. 2025-03-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-03-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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