Bill > HR2607

This bill, the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2019, aims to expedite certain forest management activities on National Forest System lands and public lands. The key provisions include: - Establishing categorical exclusions from environmental review for activities like responding to insect or disease infestations, reducing hazardous fuel loads, and protecting municipal water supplies. These categorical exclusions have acreage limitations of up to 30,000 acres if the activity is developed through a collaborative process or covered by a community wildfire protection plan. - Allowing an environmental review for certain collaborative forest management activities to only analyze the proposed activity and the no-action alternative. - Establishing a categorical exclusion for salvage operations in response to catastrophic events and a categorical exclusion for activities to create early successional forests. - Providing for expedited environmental assessments and reforestation timelines following large-scale catastrophic events. - Limiting attorney's fees and injunctive relief for challenges to forest management activities under the bill. - Establishing a discretionary arbitration pilot program as an alternative to judicial review for challenges to some forest management activities. The bill aims to streamline the environmental review and implementation of certain forest management activities in order to improve forest health and reduce wildfire risks.