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Senate committees approve vegetation-management working group to address wildfire risk
Summary
The Senate approved SCR 149 and SR 120 to convene a vegetation-management working group to clarify property-owner obligations and other wildfire-mitigation measures, accepting amendments to add agencies and refine membership and charge.
A joint Senate committee on March 24 approved SCR 149 and SR 120 to form a vegetation-management working group to study property-owner obligations and other measures to mitigate wildfire risk.
The working group will be asked to study and recommend regulations that define vegetation-management responsibilities on public and private land and examine practical programs for landowners and utilities. Committee members voted to pass the resolutions with amendments that add the Department of Education to transmittal recipients, replace the Department of Labor reference with the Department of Defense, and accept technical suggestions from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the International…
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