[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4541 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4541

    To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide 
 clarification with respect to certain categorical exclusion authority 
  relating to insect and disease infestation and wildfire resilience 
                   projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2021

Mr. Tiffany (for himself, Mr. Westerman, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Newhouse, and 
  Mr. Bentz) introduced the following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide 
 clarification with respect to certain categorical exclusion authority 
  relating to insect and disease infestation and wildfire resilience 
                   projects, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Responding Aggressively to Prevent 
Insects and Disease Act'' or the ``RAPID Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF EXISTING CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION AUTHORITY 
              RELATED TO INSECT AND DISEASE INFESTATION.

    (a) Insect and Disease Categorical Exclusion.--Section 603(c) of 
the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591b(c)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``3000 acres'' and 
        inserting ``10,000 acres''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``Fire Regime Groups 
        I, II, or III,'' and inserting ``Fire Regime I, Fire Regime II, 
        Fire Regime III, Fire Regime IV, or Fire Regime V,''.

SEC. 3. CLARIFICATION OF EXISTING CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION AUTHORITY 
              RELATED TO WILDFIRE RESILIENCE PROJECTS.

    Section 605(c) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 
U.S.C. 6591d(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``3000 acres'' and 
        inserting ``10,000 acres''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``Fire Regime Groups 
        I, II, or III'' and inserting ``Fire Regime I, Fire Regime II, 
        Fire Regime III, Fire Regime IV, or Fire Regime V''.
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