To provide that the final rule titled "Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation" and issued on January 12, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 3244) shall have no force or effect and require the Secretary of Agriculture to construct certain roads on National Forest System lands, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · February 25, 2026
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
This bill would eliminate the 2001 "Roadless Rule," a Clinton-era regulation that restricted road construction in designated roadless areas of national forests. In place of that rule, the legislation would require the Secretary of Agriculture to build roads on National Forest System lands as needed for forest restoration, hazardous fuels reduction near communities and watersheds, road replacement or decommissioning for forest health, and other management purposes under a 1897 forest conservation law. The bill would prohibit the Department of Agriculture from creating any similar roadless protection rules in the future. All road construction would still need to comply with environmental review requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act, but the underlying protections for roadless forest areas would be eliminated. The legislation does not specify funding amounts or implementation timelines, leaving those details to the Forest Service to determine.
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