Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007
Latest action · Jan 23, 2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 23, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 [sic]- Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make grants to at-risk communities in Colorado to assist them in preparing, revising, or implementing a community wildfire protection plan.
Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the use of fire department grant funds for the development and implementation of community wildfire protection plans.
Directs the Secretaries to establish collection points for the placement of vegetative material removed from federal or other land as part of a hazardous fuel reduction project under this Act.
Rewrites provisions governing the biomass commercial utilization grant program.
Authorizes the Secretaries to designate as Healthy Forest Partnership Zones certain federal lands and non-federal lands adjacent to those lands that are at risk of uncharacteristically severe damage to at-risk communities or community water supply facilities from a wildland fire or an outbreak of insects or disease and require at least one management activity to reduce that risk.
Allows the Secretaries to enter into contracts or other agreements with partnering entities to implement hazardous fuel reduction or other projects on federal land to complement similar projects on bordering or adjacent non-federal land.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide grant assistance to the Colorado Wood Program and the Forest Restoration Institute, and any other appropriate entities; and (2) collaborate with the Institute to research, develop, and transfer broader landscape treatment strategies and ways to integrate best science with community needs.
Establishes the Colorado Forest Health Fund.
Requires the Secretaries to provide grants for the Colorado fuels for schools program.
Extends terms for stewardship end result contracting projects.
Makes permanent the Secretaries' authority to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts for federal and state cooperative watershed restoration and protection.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare fire-danger maps of forested lands.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 23, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CO | Wayne Allard | Original | Jan 23, 2008 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 23, 2008 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 23, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Jan 23, 2008Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 110-354 | PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2009 BUDGET REQUEST FOR THE FOREST SERVICE85 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Feb 14, 2008 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1797 | Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 | Related bill | Jul 17, 2007 |
| HR 3072 | Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007 | Related bill | Apr 25, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to reduce the risks to Colorado communities and water supplies from severe wildfires, especially in areas affected by insect infestations, to provide model legislation that may be applied to other States experiencing similar insect infestations or other forest-related problems, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Colorado Forest Management Improvement Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Biomass energy
- Colorado
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Energy
- Environmental Protection
- Federal aid to education
- Fire departments
- Fire prevention
- Forest conservation
- Forest fires
- Forest health
- Forest management
- Forestry research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Heating
- Housing and Community Development
- Infrastructure
- Lumber trade
- Maps
- National forests
- Pests
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Restoration ecology
- Rural education
- School buildings
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Transportation and Public Works
- Tree diseases
- Trucks
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Watersheds
- Wood
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 23, 2008Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
