PRIA Logo™
119-hr-731119th Congress

Green Tape Elimination Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Issa, Darrell [R-CA-48]

Introduced

Summary

10-year exemption for hazardous fuel reduction on Federal land. This bill would let agencies treat many prescribed burns, thinning, fuel breaks, and related actions as exempt from several environmental laws and would require EPA to exclude monitoring data from those activities when deciding if air-quality standards were exceeded.

Show full summary
  • Federal land managers could carry out prescribed fire, mechanical thinning, fuel breaks, and wildland fire use without NEPA major-action review and without complying with the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Migratory Bird Conservation Act for 10 years.
  • Nearby communities would face the practical effect that EPA must exclude air-monitoring data directly caused by these hazardous fuel reduction activities when determining exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
  • Plants, listed species, migratory birds, and historic sites on Federal land would be treated outside the listed protections for activities defined as hazardous fuel reduction during the 10-year exemption.

Personalized for You

How does this bill affect your finances?

Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.

Free to download

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Easier hazardous fuel reduction work

If enacted, hazardous fuel reduction work on Federal land could proceed without some environmental laws for 10 years. Those projects would not be treated as a "major Federal action" under NEPA. Agencies could carry out this work without following the Endangered Species Act or the National Historic Preservation Act. They could also ignore the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Migratory Bird Conservation Act. The bill would define "hazardous fuel" to include trees, grasses, shrubs, sagebrush, chaparral, and dead plant material near the ground. It would define covered activities to include making fuel breaks or firebreaks. It would also cover prescribed burns, wildland fire use, and mechanical methods like thinning, piling, pruning, or cutting. The bill would add a Clean Air Act rule. If EPA finds these activities significantly affected air quality, EPA would exclude monitoring readings caused by them. Those excluded readings could not be used to count violations of any NAAQS.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Issa, Darrell [R-CA-48]

CA • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]

    NE • R

    Sponsored 1/24/2025

  • Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]

    CA • R

    Sponsored 1/24/2025

  • Rep. Collins, Mike [R-GA-10]

    GA • R

    Sponsored 1/28/2025

  • Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23]

    CA • R

    Sponsored 1/28/2025

  • Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]

    NY • R

    Sponsored 1/31/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

View on Congress.gov
Back to Legislation