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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Forest fires</title>
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  <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: S.2606 United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176846</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-376.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: S.2606 United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2606/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176845</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: S.2606 United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2606/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-29:/action/175836</id>
    <updated>2008-09-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 29, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: S.2606 United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2606/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-24:/action/174194</id>
    <updated>2008-09-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 24, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3256 Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3256/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-11:/action/165928</id>
    <updated>2008-07-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3181 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3181/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-23:/action/164686</id>
    <updated>2008-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6189 Colorado Charter Forest Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6189/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-04:/action/159095</id>
    <updated>2008-06-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a &quot;Charter Forest&quot; demonstration project on all National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado in order to combat insect infestation, improve forest health, reduce the threat of wildfire, protect biological diversity, and enhance the social sustainability and economic productivity of the lands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3036 Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3036/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-20:/action/158250</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2787 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2787/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-31:/action/148578</id>
    <updated>2008-03-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5658 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5658/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-31:/action/148545</id>
    <updated>2008-03-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5648 Emergency Wildland Fire Response Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5648/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-14:/action/148009</id>
    <updated>2008-03-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a Federal wildland fire emergency suppression fund to facilitate accountable fire suppression activities by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to unanticipated large fire events, to encourage enhanced management efficiencies and cost controls of wildland fire suppression, and to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire to communities, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5541 FLAME Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5541/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-06:/action/146907</id>
    <updated>2008-03-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5263 Forest Landscape Restoration Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5263/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-07:/action/144917</id>
    <updated>2008-02-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes on Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service through a joint Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2606 United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2606/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-07:/action/144958</id>
    <updated>2008-02-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5236 Renewable Biomass Facilitation Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5236/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-06:/action/144532</id>
    <updated>2008-02-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To promote the use of certain materials harvested from public lands in the production of renewable fuel, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5241 Colorado Forest Insect Emergency Response Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5241/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-06:/action/144669</id>
    <updated>2008-02-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to take expedited action to reduce the increased risk of severe wildfires to Colorado communities, water supplies, and infrastructure in or near forested areas most severely affected by infestations of bark beetles and other insects, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2593 Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2593/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-05:/action/144463</id>
    <updated>2008-02-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish a program at the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to carry out collaborative ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes on public land, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5216 Wildfire Risk Reduction and Renewable Biomass Utilization Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5216/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-29:/action/144200</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To promote as a renewable energy source the use of biomass removed from forest lands in connection with hazardous fuel reduction projects on certain Federal land, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5218 Fire-Safe Communities Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5218/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-29:/action/144287</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To promote fire-safe communities, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2558 A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to modify a definition.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2558/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-25:/action/142600</id>
    <updated>2008-01-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to modify a definition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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