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A bill to promote wildland firefighter safety. 6/26/2007--Reported to Senate amended.    (There is 1 other summary) Wildland Fire Safety and Transparency Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Directors of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to jointly submit annual reports to Congress on the wildland firefighter safety practices of the Secretaries, including training programs and activities for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burning, and wildland fire use. Requires such reports to include: (1) a description of, and any changes to, wildland firefighter safety practices; (2) statistics and trend analyses; (3) an estimate of the amount of federal funds spent by the Secretaries on wildland firefighter safety practices; (4) progress made in implementing recommendations [...]

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Latest Actions
  • 06/26/2007 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 110-99.
  • 06/26/2007 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 229.
  • 05/23/2007 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Date of scheduled consideration. SD-366. 11:30 a.m.
  • 05/23/2007 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
  • 04/18/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
S.1152 Reported in Senate08/31/2007