[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4251 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4251

To help relieve the shortage in the supply of firewood for home heating 
   use by making additional quantities of free firewood available to 
             individuals from National Forest System lands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2005

      Mr. Pombo (for himself, Mr. Ford, Mr. Kind, Mr. Peterson of 
   Pennsylvania, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Case, and Mr. Bass) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and 
     in addition to the Committee on 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To help relieve the shortage in the supply of firewood for home heating 
   use by making additional quantities of free firewood available to 
             individuals from National Forest System lands.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Home Heating Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY AVAILABILITY OF ADDITIONAL QUANTITIES OF FREE 
              FIREWOOD FROM DEAD TREES ON NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS.

    (a) Availability of Free Firewood.--Notwithstanding section 223.8 
of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, during the one year period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, forest officers 
designated by the supervisor of a unit of the National Forest System 
shall grant individuals the free collection and removal of dead timber 
from designated National Forest System lands to be used as firewood.
    (b) Value of Timber.--The total value of the timber collected by an 
individual using the authority provided by this section may not exceed 
$1,000.
    (c) Relation to Other Laws.--Except as provided in subsections (a) 
and (b), the collection of firewood using the authority provided by 
this section shall be subject to all other applicable rules of the 
Forest Service.
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