WashingtonWatch.com - Subject: Forest fires

P.L. 110-329, The Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 - Cost per Average Family: $8032.37

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008....

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H.R. 5658, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 - Cost per Average Family: $5307.83

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5658 would authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2009....

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S. 3302, The Good Neighbor Forestry Act

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3302 would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with State foresters authorizing State foresters to provide certain forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services....

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S. 3289, The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 - Cost per Average Family: $869.34

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009....

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S. 3256, The Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3256 would provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, and it would require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy....

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S. 3181, The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009 - Cost per Average Family: $447.91

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009....

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H.R. 6290, The Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2008

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6290 would designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness....

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S. 2593, The Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $1.75

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2593 would establish a program at the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to carry out collaborative ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes on public land....

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H.R. 6189, The Colorado Charter Forest Act of 2008

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6189 would require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a "Charter Forest" demonstration project on all National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado in order to combat insect infestation, improve forest health, reduce the threat of wildfire, protect biological diversity, and enhance the social sustainability and economic productivity of the lands....

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S. 3036, The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $13471.51

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3036 would direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases....

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H.R. 5541, The Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act - Cost per Average Family: $0.92

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5541 would provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, and it would require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy....

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P.L. 110-376, The United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $2.74

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2606 would reauthorize the United States Fire Administration....

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S. 2390, The Fire-Safe Communities Act - Cost per Average Family: $4.71

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2390 would promote fire-safe communities....

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S. 2191, The America's Climate Security Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $18676.96

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2191 would direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases....

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S. 2787, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2787 would authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2009....

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H.R. 5648, The Emergency Wildland Fire Response Act of 2008

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5648 would amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a Federal wildland fire emergency suppression fund to facilitate accountable fire suppression activities by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to unanticipated large fire events, to encourage enhanced management efficiencies and cost controls of wildland fire suppression, and to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire to communities....

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P.L. 110-229, The Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2739 would authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the Department of Energy, it would implement further the Act approving the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, and it would amend the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003....

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H.R. 4847, The United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $2.74

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4847 would reauthorize the United States Fire Administration....

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P.L. 110-140, The CLEAN Energy Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $3.79

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 6 would reduce our Nation's dependency on foreign oil by investing in clean, renewable, and alternative energy resources, promoting new emerging energy technologies, developing greater efficiency, and creating a Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve to invest in alternative energy....

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H.R. 5263, The Forest Landscape Restoration Act

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5263 would encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes on Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service through a joint Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program....

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H.R. 5241, The Colorado Forest Insect Emergency Response Act of 2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5241 would amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to take expedited action to reduce the increased risk of severe wildfires to Colorado communities, water supplies, and infrastructure in or near forested areas most severely affected by infestations of bark beetles and other insects....

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H.R. 5236, The Renewable Biomass Facilitation Act of 2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5236 would promote the use of certain materials harvested from public lands in the production of renewable fuel....

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H.R. 5218, The Fire-Safe Communities Act

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5218 would promote fire-safe communities....

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H.R. 5216, The Wildfire Risk Reduction and Renewable Biomass Utilization Act

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5216 would promote as a renewable energy source the use of biomass removed from forest lands in connection with hazardous fuel reduction projects on certain Federal land....

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S. 2558, A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to modify a definition

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

S. 2558 would amend the Clean Air Act to modify a definition....

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