Hearing highlights Forest Service plan to begin repealing 2001 roadless rule
Committee exchange focused on the Forest Service announcement to begin rulemaking to repeal the 2001 roadless rule, the rule’s scope across roughly 59 million acres, and agency plans for public input and forest-plan amendments (Idaho and Colorado exempt).
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At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, two panel participants discussed the Forest Service’s announcement to begin a rulemaking process to repeal the 2001 roadless rule, which Speaker 1 said covers roughly 59,000,000 acres of national forest system lands and about 60% of Forest Service land in Utah. Speaker 1 said that acreage ‘‘represents nearly 10% of the total, federal land footprint.’’
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