US Congress House Bill 7273 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on June 18 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-08-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Pending: House Conservation and Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program. Specifically, under the program, the Forest Service shall carry out critical deferred maintenance, urgent repairs, road and trail relocation, and associated activities on National Forest System roads, trails, and bridges; restore passages of fish and other aquatic species by removing or replacing unnatural barriers from such passages; and decommission any roads and trails as unneeded as soon as practicable after identifying them as unneeded. In implementing the program, the Forest Service shall give priority to projects that protect or restore water quality and watershed function; a watershed that supplies a public drinking water system; the habitat of a threatened, endangered, or sensitive fish or wildlife species, or a species of conservation concern; or a watershed for which the Forest Service has completed a watershed protection and restoration action plan. The Forest Service shall identify the minimum road system needed for each unit of the National Forest System. The Forest Service shall develop a national strategy to carry out the program.

To provide for the Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program.

Rep. Kim Schrier [D-WA]

Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-08-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2020-07-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
2020-07-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
2020-06-18	House	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.
2020-06-18	House	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.
2020-06-18	House	Introduced in House

HB7264 (Related) 2020-06-18 - Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7273/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr7273/BILLS-116hr7273ih.pdf