Locally Led Restoration Act of 2025

Discussed concerns with third-party efforts to remove the Lower Snake River Dams and the importance of hydropower (no bill). Discussed President Trumps Executive Order, Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response, and APPAs support for efforts to improve interagency coordination on wildfires. Discussed support for H.R. 471/S. 1462, the Fix Our Forests Act, including section 204 in the House bill to provide categorical exclusions for vegetation management along power line rights-of-way on federal lands. Discussed support for H.R. 2492, the Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025 (all provisions). Discussed concerns with section 60062 in H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, provision to allow for faster review of environmental assessments and environmental impact statements under the National Environmental Policy Act. Discussed H.R. 3637, the Locally Led Restoration Act of 2025, to allow public and private entities to enter into stewardship contracts with the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management if the goals of a project include the removal of vegetation and at least 10 percent of the vegetation proposed to be removed is salvage, meaning wildfire kill, beetle kill, and dead or dying organic material.