Live Forest Fires Map
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Last year, wildfires burned 9.3 million acres, while the U.S. Forest Service only harvested approximately 200,000 acres. This means that 44 times as many acres burned as were responsibility harvested. The burned areas were not allowed to be salvaged. Committee Report on H.R. 1033, the "American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013"
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H. Rept. 113-29 Committee Report on H.R. 1033, the "Vietnam Veterans Donor Acknowledgment Act of 2013"
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H. Rept. 113-28 Committee Report on H.R. 291, the "Black Hills Cemetery Act"
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H. Rept. 113-26 Chairman Hastings Unveils Draft Proposal to Restore Active Forest Management and Help Rural Schools & Counties
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today unveiled a draft proposal to address the expiration of the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program. The draft proposal, Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, renews the federal government’s commitment to manage forest resources for the benefit of rural schools and counties by allowing active forest… 31 Bipartisan Members Send Letter Questioning Obama Administration’s Retroactive Sequestration Cuts to SRS Payments used for Rural Schools and Emergency Services
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and a bipartisan group of 30 Members of Congress sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Office of Management and Budget Director Jeffrey Zients questioning why the Obama Administration is retroactively subjecting Secure Rural School (SRS) payments, which were made to counties in… Letter from 31 Members of Congress to Secretary Vilsack and Director Zients Regarding Secure Rural Schools Funding
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Dear Secretary Vilsack and Director Zients, We have been informed that the Forest Service has recently proclaimed that funds already distributed under the most recent extension of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (SRS) or payments based on revenue generated in fiscal year 2012 are subject to the fiscal year 2013 sequester, and the agency will be requesting… Chairman Hastings’ Statement on President Obama’s Plan to Use Antiquities Act to Unilaterally Designate Five New National Monuments
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after President Obama announced his intentions to unilaterally designate five new National Monuments using presidential powers granted under the 1906 Antiquities Act. “The Obama Administration not only sees the sequester as an opportunity to make automatic spending reductions as painful as… Obama Administration to Retroactively Subject Secure Rural School Payments to Sequestration Cuts
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the U.S. Forest Service announced that Secure Rural School (SRS) payments, which went out to counties in January, will be subjected to sequestration cuts: “Several months before President Obama’s sequester was scheduled to go into effect, Congress approved - and President Obama signed… To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to the city of Vancouver, Washington, and for other purposes (H.R. 716)
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Reporting H.R. 716 Out of Committee (Passed 20-14. View Roll Call Vote) This bill would direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey and return jurisdiction of the 7-acre Pearson Aviation Museum Complex to the city of Vancouver, Washington with the City of Vancouver covering all costs of the conveyance. * For complete legislative action for the March 20, 2013 Full Committee Markup, click here.
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