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Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025
Summary
This bill authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to allow electrical utilities to cut and remove trees and vegetation around electrical lines on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands without requiring a separate timber sale. The cutting and removal must be consistent with applicable land management plans and environmental laws. If the utility sells any of the removed material, the proceeds (minus transportation costs) must be returned to the federal government. The bill streamlines the permitting process for electrical utility vegetation management on federal lands to help maintain clearance around power lines.
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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Salud O. Carbajal’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $39,900
- TIGER MOON GROUP $13,200
- JENNINGS AERONAUTICS INC. $9,900
- WINDOW WORLD $9,900
- CHUMASH $8,400
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Salud O. Carbajal → · Outside spending →
Actions (10)
- May 14, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. · senate
- May 13, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
- May 13, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1983) · house
- May 13, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1983)
- May 13, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2492. · house
- May 13, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1983-1984) · house
- May 13, 2025 Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. · house
- Apr 18, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture. · house
- Mar 31, 2025 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. · house
- Mar 31, 2025 Introduced in House
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Text versions (3)
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Full text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands, respectively, without conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes.
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 “Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. PERMITS AND AGREEMENTS WITH ELECTRICAL UTILITIES.
(a) In General.—In any special use permit or easement on covered Federal lands provided to an electrical utility, the Secretary concerned may provide permission to cut and remove trees or other vegetation from within the vicinity of distribution lines or transmission lines without requiring a separate timber sale, if that cutting and removal is consistent with—
(1) any applicable land and resource management plan; and
(2) other applicable environmental laws (including regulations).
(b) Use of Proceeds.—A special use permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal described in subsection (a) shall include a requirement that, if the applicable electrical utility sells any portion of the material removed under the permit or easement, the electrical utility shall provide to the Secretary concerned any proceeds received from the sale, less any transportation costs incurred in the sale.
(c) Effect.—Nothing in subsection (b) shall require the sale of any material removed under a permit or easement that includes permission for cutting and removal described in subsection (a).
(d) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Covered federal lands.—The term “covered Federal lands” means—
(A) National Forest System lands; and
(B) lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
(2) Secretary concerned.—The term “Secretary concerned” means—
(A) with respect to National Forest System lands, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service; and
(B) with respect to lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
Passed the House of Representatives May 13, 2025.
Attest:
Clerk. 119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2492
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands, respectively, without conducting a timber sale, and for other purposes.
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