I
118THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 200
To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
to provide that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the
Interior are not required to reinitiate consultation on a land management
plan or land use plan under certain circumstances, and for other pur-
poses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY9, 2023
Mr. R
OSENDALEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agri-
culture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 to provide that the Secretary
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are
not required to reinitiate consultation on a land manage-
ment plan or land use plan under certain circumstances,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:06 Jan 19, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H200.IH H200
kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2
•HR 200 IH
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Forest Information 2
Reform Act’’ or the ‘‘FIR Act’’. 3
SEC. 2. NO ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION REQUIRED. 4
(a) F
ORESTSERVICEPLANS.—Section 6(d)(2) of the 5
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 6
of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(d)(2)) is amended to read as 7
follows: 8
‘‘(2) N
O ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION RE -9
QUIRED UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES .—Not-10
withstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-11
retary shall not be required to reinitiate consultation 12
under section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act 13
of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2)) or section 402.16 of 14
title 50, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 15
regulation), on a land management plan approved, 16
amended, or revised under this section when a spe-17
cies is listed, critical habitat is designated, or new 18
information concerning a listed species or critical 19
habitat becomes available.’’. 20
(b) B
UREAU OFLANDMANAGEMENTPLANS.—Sec-21
tion 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 22
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) is amended by adding at the 23
end the following: 24
‘‘(g) N
OADDITIONALCONSULTATION REQUIRED 25
U
NDERCERTAINCIRCUMSTANCES.—Notwithstanding 26
VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:06 Jan 19, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H200.IH H200
kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3
•HR 200 IH
any other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be re-1
quired to reinitiate consultation under section 7(a)(2) of 2
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 3
1536(a)(2)) or section 402.16 of title 50, Code of Federal 4
Regulations (or a successor regulation), on a land use plan 5
approved, amended, or revised under this section when a 6
species is listed, critical habitat is designated, or new in-7
formation concerning a listed species or critical habitat be-8
comes available.’’. 9
Æ
VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:06 Jan 19, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H200.IH H200
kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS