Bill Details
HR.1110 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2026-01-08 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-433, Part I.
Introduced Date
2025-02-07
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (10)
- Rep. Vasquez, Gabe [D-New Mexico-2]
- Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-Washington-4]
- Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-Wyoming]
- Rep. Maloy, Celeste [R-Utah-2]
- Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-Colorado-4]
- Rep. Bentz, Cliff [R-Oregon-2]
- Rep. Downing, Troy [R-Montana-2]
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-Arizona-9]
- Rep. Issa, Darrell [R-California-48]
- Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-Washington-3]
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This bill would direct the Secretary of Agriculture, working through the U.S. Forest Service, to create and carry out a plan to use livestock grazing more often as a way to reduce wildfire risk on federal lands. The goal is to make it easier to use grazing in places and times where it can help lower dry vegetation, control invasive grasses, and support land recovery after fires or other disasters.
- It would allow grazing on unused grazing areas during droughts, wildfires, or other natural disasters that interrupt normal grazing.
- It would encourage more use of targeted grazing, where livestock are placed in specific areas to reduce fuels that can feed wildfires.
- It would expand the use of temporary permits to help reduce wildfire fuels and cut down on invasive annual grasses.
- It would also support using grazing after fires, when appropriate, to help with recovery and restoration, and tells the department to use all legal tools available.
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[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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