DeFazio (OR)

#3

Allows the emergency procedures authorized by H.R. 4200 to be used on lands managed for timber production.  For all other lands, except where prohibited, such as wilderness areas, the Secretary would be required to amend land management plans to incorporate salvage and restoration activities.

Inslee (WA)

#2

Exempts any provision in the underlying bill from being applicable to any inventoried roadless area within the National Forest System set forth in the maps contained in the Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, dated November 2000.

Rahall (WV)

#1

Strikes all waivers of existing conservation laws by removing the bill's exemptions from requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  The amendment also specifically requires that the Secretary concerned comply with the NEPA in utilizing the authorities under H.R. 4200.

Udall (NM)

#4

Adds language in Sec 102(e) directing the relevant Secretary to consider the effect of any pre-approved management practice or catastrophic event recovery or research project on fire risk and forest regeneration.  It further states that the Secretary may not implement the practice or carry out the recovery or research project unless the Secretary is able to certify that the activity will not increase fire risk or decrease forest regeneration.