Requires the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to speed up thinning and prescribed burning on federal forest and public land, with annual acreage goals that rise over time and yearly public reporting on progress.

• Sets annual acreage goals for mechanical thinning and prescribed fire on federal land, starting at the 2019 to 2023 average and rising to at least 40 percent above that average from fiscal year 2029 onward
• Requires yearly public reports on acres treated, obstacles such as litigation, and progress against the goals, and exempts the goal-setting from the National Environmental Policy Act
• Raises the timber sale contract threshold in the National Forest Management Act from $10,000 to $55,000 and lets utility companies cut hazard trees within 50 feet of power lines, with proceeds from sales returned to the agency
• Creates a categorical exclusion from environmental review for high-priority hazard tree work, caps those projects at 3,000 acres, and requires agencies to use at least one streamlined review authority in units with wildland-urban interface land within 3 years

• Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)
• Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee

Public Lands and Natural Resources