Expediting Forest Restoration and Recovery Act of 2025
Congress pushes faster Forest Service approvals for wildfire and insect-risk projects on national forests
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No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Requires the Agriculture Department to speed up forest projects that reduce wildfire fuel and control insects and tree disease in certain national forest areas.
- In some areas where timber work is allowed, the Forest Service would have to use a faster, “shortcut” environmental review process to move projects along.
- In other areas (like places with bigger resource concerns), the Forest Service would still do fuller environmental reviews, but the bill narrows what alternatives must be studied.
- Keeps some places off-limits for this faster process, like designated wilderness and most roadless areas, with limited exceptions.
- Lets states keep and reuse money from timber sales under certain state-federal forest agreements to fund more restoration work, and requires yearly public reporting on acres treated.
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Milestones
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S794)
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Expediting Forest Restoration and Recovery Act of 2025
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