H.R. 8790 – Fix Our Forests Act

Standalone amendments receive up to 10 minutes of debate.

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 1 – Adds consideration of a strategy for reducing the
threat of wildfires to wildland firefighters to the fireshed assessment – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Valadao (R, on behalf of LaMalfa (R-CA) – Amendment No. 2 – Directs the United States Forest Service to expand the use of proactive, targeted animal grazing in fuels management programs to reduce wildfire risk – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Valadao (R-CA) – Amendment No. 3 – Requires the U.S. Forest Service to conduct an evaluation of the container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS) to assess the use of such a system to mitigate and suppress wildfires – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Garamendi (D-CA) – Amendment No. 4 – Clarifies that special districts are eligible to participate in the wildfire-related programs authorized under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. Clarifies that special districts are eligible to participate in the biochar research and development program established
in Sec.301 of H.R.8790. Expands the Good Neighbor Authority to special districts – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Obernolte (R-CA) – Amendment No. 5 – Adds thermal mid-wave infrared equipped low earth orbit satellites as a prioritized emerging technology for agencies to implement through public-private partnerships for wildfire mitigation and detection – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Harder (D-CA) – Amendment No. 6 – Authorizes a Department of Interior Casualty
Assistance Program to provide assistance to firefighters and the families of firefighters who were critically injured, ill, or killed in the line-of duty – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Barr (R-KY) – Amendment No. 7 – Directs the the US Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to address reforestation and regeneration issues specific to the White Oak species through the White Oak
Initiative and pilot projects – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Petterson (D-CO) – Amendment No. 8 – Expands nursery and seed capacity work to support reforestation and restoration by state, Tribal, and local governments and institutions of higher education – ADOPTED BY VOICE

MULLIN (D-CA) – Amendment No. 9 – Adds artificial intelligence and other decision support tools for use by the Fireshed Center – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Valadao (R-CA), on behalf of Costa (D-CA) – Amendment No. 10 – Expands public and private forestry and watershed management partnerships by reducing redundancy for existing water source management plans and increasing the number of eligible entities – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Boebert (R-CO), on behalf of Zinke (R-MT) – Amendment No. 11 – Allows GNA revenue to be used for reconstruction, repair, and restoration of non-NFS roads necessary to implement GNA projects on federal lands, allows GNA cooperators to construct new permanent roads on federal lands that is necessary to implement authorized restoration activities and approved by the federal agency through an Environmental Analysis or Categorical Exclusion decision, and allows GNA cooperators to complete new permanent road construction to replace and decommission existing permanent road(s) that are adversely
impacting forest, rangeland, or watershed health – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 12 – Clarifies existing authorities may be utilized to prevent wildfires in Fire Regimes IV and V which are located in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Maine, West Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa, Florida, and Texas – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 13 – Ensures grazing is one of the hazardous fuels reduction activities authorized by the bill – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 14 – Requires regional foresters to submit a plan through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program for the treatment and removal of trees killed by or infested with bark beetles in Western states – ADOPTED BY VOICE

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 15 – Requires regional foresters to submit a plan for the sale of Christmas trees and firewood on federal lands – ADOPTED BY VOICE

LaLota (R-NY) – Amendment No. 16 – Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a study on the impacts pine beetles have in the Northeastern region of the United States – Ten minutes of debate began at 4:52 p.m.