COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Thursday, April 10, 2008
10:00 a.m.
LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:
- H.R. 5541 (Rahall), To provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes. “Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act” or “FLAME Act”
- H.R. 5648 (Goodlatte), To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a Federal wildland fire emergency suppression fund to facilitate accountable fire suppression activities by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to unanticipated large fire events, to encourage enhanced management efficiencies and cost controls of wildland fire suppression, and to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire to communities, and for other purposes. “Emergency Wildland Fire Response Act of 2008”
WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:
Panel I
The Honorable Norman D. Dicks (WA-6)
The Honorable Bob Goodlatte (VA-6)
Panel II
The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Governor, State of Arizona
Jack Ward Thomas
Former Chief
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Gerry Gray
Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
Leah W. MacSwords
Vice President
National Association of State Foresters
Veto "Sonny" LaSalle
Executive Director
Big Sky Coalition
