HR2492Passed House
Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-03-31
Introduced
3
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Salud O. Carbajal
Democrat · CA · Representative
Votes with party: 97.6% (667 recorded votes)
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Cosponsors (3)
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
2025-05-14
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryReferred To · 2025-05-14
- House Committee on AgricultureReferred To · 2025-03-31
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-03-31
Plain-English Summary
Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025 This bill allows the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to expedite the removal of trees or other vegetation near electrical lines on their lands under certain circumstances. Specifically, the Forest Service and the BLM may include in special use permits or easements provided to electrical utilities permission to cut, remove, and sell trees or other vegetation near electrical lines on such lands without a separate timber sale if the cutting or removal is consistent with (1) any applicable land and resource management plan, and (2) other applicable environmental laws. A special use permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal of trees or vegetation must include a requirement that, if the applicable electrical utility sells any portion of the material removed under the permit or easement, the utility must provide to the Forest Service or the BLM any proceeds received from the sale, less any transportation costs incurred in the sale.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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