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HJM012....................................................by WAYS AND MEANS
HEALTHY FOREST INITIATIVE - Stating findings of the Legislature and
requesting that the U.S. Congress fully support the Healthy Forest
Initiative and individual proposals of the United States Departments of
Agriculture and Interior.
04/16 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
04/17 Rpt prt - to 2nd rdg
04/18 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
04/21 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Cuddy
Title apvd - to Senate
04/22 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Env
04/24 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
04/25 10th ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Brandt
Title apvd - to House
04/25 To enrol
04/28 Rpt enrol - Sp signed - Pres signed
To Secretary of State
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session - 2003
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 12
BY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the First Regular Session of the Fifty-seventh
7 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, the United States Departments of Agriculture and Interior esti-
9 mate that nationwide, 190,000,000 acres of federally owned forest land face a
10 forest health and wildfire risk crisis situation; and
11 WHEREAS, in the summer of 2000, 1,400,000 acres of forest lands were
12 burned by wildfire with another 8,600,000 acres at risk due to insects, dis-
13 ease and fire in Idaho's National Forests; and
14 WHEREAS, in a June 2002 report entitled "The Process Predicament," the
15 United States Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service cited itself as
16 "...so busy meeting procedural requirements...that (the agency) has trouble
17 fulfilling its historic mission: to sustain the health, diversity and produc-
18 tivity of the nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and
19 future generations."; and
20 WHEREAS, the inability to promptly and efficiently implement forest man-
21 agement projects due to environmental activists' lawsuits has contributed to
22 wildfire risks and the spread of insect and disease epidemics in Idaho's
23 National Forests; and
24 WHEREAS, the United States Departments of Agriculture and Interior have
25 proposed the Healthy Forests Initiative, which includes several proposals to
26 streamline and improve analysis, decision making and implementation of federal
27 land management projects and programs; and
28 WHEREAS, these initiatives include categorical exclusions to accelerate
29 unexpected and imperative fuels, fire rehabilitation and small timber sale
30 projects; reforming the administrative appeals process; and revising the regu-
31 lations for forest planning; and
32 WHEREAS, the citizens of Idaho would benefit from increased levels of for-
33 est management that would help reduce the risks of wildfires and insect epi-
34 demics in the National Forests in Idaho.
35 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
36 of the Fifty-seventh Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the
37 Senate concurring therein, that the Idaho Legislature supports the Healthy
38 Forests Initiative and its individual proposals and that we respectfully
39 request the entire United States Congress to fully support the Healthy For-
40 ests Initiative and its individual proposals.
41 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa-
42 tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this
43 Memorial to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Repre-
44 sentatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the
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1 State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 13274
The purpose of this memorial is to support the United States
Department of Agriculture in it's efforts to implement measures
to improve forest health and to reduce damage to the environment
and loss of natural resources by wildfire.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no cost to the general fund.
Contact
Name: Representative Chuck Cuddy
Phone: 332-1231
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE HJM 12