118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 1473Targeting and Offsetting Existing Illegal Contaminants Act

To provide for a program within the Forest Service to detect, document, monitor, and remediate the environmental damages caused by trespass cultivation on National Forest Lands, and amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to include criminal penalties for illegal pesticide application on Government property, and for other purposes.

Public lands and natural resources
Introduced Mar 8, 2023
Last action Apr 19, 2023
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Mar 8, 2023
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Referred
Apr 19, 2023
Agriculture · Budget · Natural Resources
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Committee
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House floor
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Senate
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Resolve Changes
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill provides for a program within the Forest Service to detect, monitor, and remediate the environmental damage caused by trespass cultivation of cannabis on National Forest System lands and increases criminal penalties for illegal pesticide application on government property. Specifically, the bill directs the Forest Service to carry out a program of environmental remediation on its land, to be known as the Trespass Cannabis Cultivation Site Remediation Program. The Forest Service shall pay fees and charges imposed by state authorities for permits for the disposal of hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, improper pesticides, or other wastes on Forest Service lands to the s...

Provisions · 4 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 7 actions
Apr 19, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
Mar 23, 2023
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Mar 22, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Mar 8, 2023
Introduced in House
Mar 8, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and the Budget, 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.
Mar 8, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and the Budget, 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.
Mar 8, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and the Budget, 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.