Sec. 4. Authorized wildfire prevention projects
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As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall implement authorized wildfire prevention projects in at-risk forests and on threatened and endangered species habitat in a manner that focuses on surface, ladder, and canopy fuels reduction activities. In the case of an authorized wildfire prevention project carried out on threatened and endangered species habitat, the project shall be carried out— to provide enhanced protection from wildfire (including catastrophic wildfire) for the endangered species, threatened species, or habitat of the endangered species or threatened species; and in compliance with any applicable guidelines specified in the species recovery plan prepared under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533).
In the case of an authorized wildfire prevention project carried out in an at-risk forest, the project shall be carried out so as to move Federal land in condition class II or III toward condition class I, as those classes were developed by the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in the general technical report entitled Development of Coarse-Scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management (RMRS–87) and dated April 2000 (including any subsequent revision to the report).
Domestic livestock grazing may be used in an authorized wildfire prevention project— to reduce surface fuel loads; and to recover burned areas. Utilization standards shall not apply in cases in which domestic livestock grazing is used in an authorized wildfire prevention project. Timber harvesting and thinning may be used in an authorized wildfire prevention project to reduce ladder and canopy fuel loads to prevent wildfire (including catastrophic wildfire). Nothing in this section requires the Secretary concerned, as a condition of conducting an authorized wildfire prevention project, to revise or amend— the land and resource management plan applicable to the National Forest System land on which authorized wildfire prevention project is to be conducted; or the land use plan applicable to the public land on which the authorized wildfire prevention project is to be conducted.
Not later than 60 days after the date on which the Secretary receives a public petition for the designation of Federal land as an at-risk forest or as a threatened and endangered species habitat, the Secretary concerned shall— review the petition; and make a determination regarding the designation.
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