Grazing for Wildfire Risk Reduction Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1110 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1110

  To require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and implement a 
 strategy to increase opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as a 
                   means of wildfire risk reduction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2025

 Mr. LaMalfa (for himself, Mr. Vasquez, Mr. Newhouse, Ms. Hageman, and 
  Ms. Maloy) 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 require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and implement a 
 strategy to increase opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as a 
                   means of wildfire risk reduction.

    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 ``Grazing for Wildfire Risk Reduction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. UTILIZING GRAZING FOR WILDFIRE RISK REDUCTION.

    The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the U.S. 
Forest Service, in coordination with holders of permits to graze 
livestock on Federal land, shall develop and implement a strategy to 
increase opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as wildfire risk 
reduction strategy, including--
            (1) completion of reviews (as required under the National 
        Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (U.S.C. 4321 et seq.)) to 
        allow permitted grazing on vacant grazing allotments during 
        instances of drought, wildfire or other natural disasters that 
        disrupt grazing on allotments already permitted;
            (2) use of targeted grazing;
            (3) increase use of temporary permits to promote targeted 
        fuels reduction and reduction of invasive annual grasses;
            (4) increased use of grazing as a postfire recovery and 
        restoration strategy, where appropriate; and
            (5) use all applicable authorities under the law.
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