Community Wildfire Protection Act of 2022

Community Wildfire Protection Act of 2022

This bill modifies the definition of at-risk community with respect to the hazardous fuel reduction program to eliminate the requirement that such a community be an interface community as defined in the notice titled Wildland Urban Interface Communities Within the Vicinity of Federal Lands That Are at High Risk From Wildfire or be within or adjacent to federal land.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4826 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4826

  To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to modify the 
             definition of the term ``at-risk community''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 13, 2022

 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mr. Daines) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to modify the 
             definition of the term ``at-risk community''.

    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 ``Community Wildfire Protection Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF AT-RISK COMMUNITY.

    Section 101(1) of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 
U.S.C. 6511(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking subparagraph (A); and
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
        subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively.
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