HR 4573 United States House · 117th Congress

Stop CATASTROPHES Act

Summary

Stop Causing Alarming Tree, Air, and Soil Trauma Resulting from Obstructive Progressives' and Hypocritical Environmentalists' Schemes Act or the Stop CATASTROPHES Act This bill categorically excludes certain forest management activities from the requirement to prepare an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement. The activities are those that are carried out by the Department of Agriculture on National Forest System Lands or the Department of the Interior on public lands where the primary purpose is to improve or restore such lands or reduce the risk of wildfire on such lands. To be excluded, the area of the forest management activity may not exceed 10,000 acres.

Issues: ✗ Environment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

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Jul 2021

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Introduced Jul 20, 2021 Last action Aug 11, 2021

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Aug 11, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

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Jul 20, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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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Jul 20, 2021

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Introduced in House

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1 primary · 12 co-sponsors