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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 30, 2013
New Mexico Wildland Fire Emergency Salvage Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to affected National Forest System lands, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to affected Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, as part of the restoration and rehabilitation activities undertaken on lands within the Gila National Forest and Lincoln National Forest and on BLM lands adversely impacted by the 2012 Little Bear and Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fires and the 2013 Silver Fire in New Mexico, to promptly plan and implement salvage timber sales of dead, damaged, or downed timber resulting from such wildfires.
Requires such salvage timber sales to proceed immediately and to completion.
Declares the such sales shall not be subject to administrative or judicial review in any U.S. court.
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Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2] · R–NM
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
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.
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.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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