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H.R. 2026: Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013

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H.R. 2026: Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013

113th Congress · introduced 2013-05-16 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 452.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-05-16 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 452. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring, or from promulgating regulations that direct a state to require, a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for a discharge of stormwater runoff resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture activities: nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation, thinning, prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting operations, surface drainage, and road use, construction, and maintenance. Specifies that nothing in this Act exempts a silvicultural activity resulting in the discharge of dredged of fill material from permit requirements for discharges into navigable waters.

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Official text

Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to House without amendment)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] · 69 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Michael K. Simpson (R-ID), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Austin Scott (R-GA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR), Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Steve Womack (R-AR), Steve Daines (R-MT), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Mike Rogers (R-AL) and 9 more.

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Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr2026 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113