Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3300 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3300

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that a
     permit is not required under the National Pollutant Discharge
     Elimination System for a discharge resulting from the aerial
application of certain products used for fire control and suppression,
                        and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2025

   Mr. LaMalfa (for himself, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Mr.
 McClintock, Mr. Costa, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Fong, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Issa,
   Mrs. Kim, and Mr. Gray) introduced the following bill; which was
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that a
     permit is not required under the National Pollutant Discharge
     Elimination System for a discharge resulting from the aerial
application of certain products used for fire control and suppression,
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Forest Protection and Wildland
Firefighter Safety Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PERMIT REQUIREMENT.

    Section 402(l)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1342(l)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``this section for a discharge
                from'' and inserting the following: ``this section
                for--
                            ``(i) a discharge from'';
                    (B) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking
                the period at the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) a discharge resulting from the
                        aerial application of a product used for fire
                        control and suppression purposes that appears
                        on the most current applicable Qualified
                        Products List maintained by the Forest Service
                        (or any successor list).''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) by striking ``(C) The authorization'' and
                inserting the following:
                    ``(C) Applicability.--The authorization'';
                    (B) by striking ``Section 505(a)'' and inserting
                ``section 505(a)'';
                    (C) by striking ``402(p)(6)'' and inserting
                ``subsection (p)(6)''; and
                    (D) by striking ``402(l)(3)(A)'' each place it
                appears and inserting ``subparagraph (A)''.
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