FLAME Act Amendments of 2015
Latest action · Feb 12, 2015 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 12, 2015
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
FLAME Act Amendments of 2015
Amends the FLAME Act of 2009 to revise how the FLAME Funds for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) are funded.
Makes amounts appropriated to a FLAME Fund available to USDA or Interior for wildfire suppression operations if the department concerned notifies the relevant congressional committees that a wildfire suppression event is eligible for funding from the FLAME Fund.
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require certain adjustments to discretionary spending limits to accommodate appropriations for wildfire suppression operations in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at USDA or Interior.
Requires adjustments for fire suppression to be made if all amounts in the FLAME Fund established under the FLAME Act of 2009 have been expended and other specified conditions are met.
Amends existing disaster funding adjustments to discretionary spending limits to add provisions related to fire suppression adjustments.
Authorizes USDA to conduct projects that involve the management or sale of national forest material within certain National Forest System (NFS) lands.
Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to obligate funds to cover any potential cancellation or termination costs (cancellation ceiling) in stages that are economically or programmatically viable with respect to an agreement or contract for a stewardship end result contracting project. Requires the Forest Service and BLM to submit written notice to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget 30 days before entering into a multiyear agreement or contract that includes a cancellation ceiling exceeding $25 million if proposed funding for the costs of cancelling the agreement or contract up to the ceiling is not included.
Allows the Forest Service and BLM, if the offset value of the forest products to be removed exceeds the value of the resource improvement treatments, to: (1) use the excess to satisfy any outstanding liabilities for cancelled agreements or contracts; or (2) if there are no such outstanding liabilities, apply the excess to other authorized stewardship projects.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 12, 2015.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AZ | Jeff Flake | Original | Feb 12, 2015 |
| R-WY | John Barrasso | Original | Feb 12, 2015 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 12, 2015Introduced in Senate
- Feb 12, 2015Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative remedies
- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
- Appropriations
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Agriculture
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Endangered and threatened species
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government trust funds
- Land use and conservation
- Performance measurement
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- State and local finance
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 12, 2015Introduced in Senate
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