I will support legislation to update the Clean Air Act to better account for prescribed burns and other approved wildfire mitigation efforts.

The FIRE Act updates the Clean Air Act to better account for prescribed burns and other approved wildfire mitigation efforts.

The bill associated with Evans would revise Clean Air Act treatment of prescribed burns and other approved wildfire mitigation actions.

House Republicans Fight Radical Environmentalists to Keep Communities Safer from Wildfires | House Republicans
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Representative Gabe Evans secured House passage of his bipartisan Fire Improvement and Reforming Exceptional Events (FIRE) Act, H.R. 6387 , a commonsense measure to address unfair air quality regulations tied to emissions beyond states’ control. The FIRE Act ensures job creators and consumers are not penalized for emissions like wildfire smoke and prescribed burns... The legislation will also provide clarity and predictability to air quality planning, reduces unnecessary regulatory burdens on manufacturers and communities.

Evans backs the FIRE Act, which changes how air quality rules treat wildfire smoke and prescribed burns and reduces regulatory burdens tied to exceptional events.

House Passes Evans’ Bipartisan FIRE Act to Cut Red Tape and Lower Costs | Representative Gabe Evans
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Roll Call 25 was on passage of H.R. 471, the Fix Our Forests Act. The Clerk records the bill status as Passed, 279-141, and lists Evans (CO), Republican, Colorado, as Yea.

Evans voted yes on the Fix Our Forests Act in the same congressional term. This is concrete support for wildfire mitigation legislation, but the roll-call vote does not itself show a Clean Air Act update.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives: Roll Call 25, H.R. 471
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 471 as the Fix Our Forests Act, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman, introduced January 16, 2025. The tracker status is Passed House; Congress.gov states the House passed it on January 23, 2025 by 279-141, Roll no. 25, and the latest action was a Senate committee hearing on March 6, 2025.

The bill Evans supported advanced in the House but, as of the official record shown, had not passed the Senate or become law. This supports effort but not full delivery of a statutory change.

partial same_term A for effort

Congress.gov: H.R.471 - Fix Our Forests Act
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The bill defines hazardous fuels management activities as vegetation management activities that reduce wildfire risk, including mechanical thinning, mastication, prescribed burning, cultural burning, timber harvest, and grazing.

The text directly addresses prescribed burning as a wildfire-risk-reduction tool, matching part of the promise. It does not show an amendment to the Clean Air Act, so it is partial rather than delivered evidence.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.471 - Fix Our Forests Act
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The bill would create a Fireshed Center whose purposes include public health risk reduction related to wildland fire and smoke, including air quality monitoring and forecasting and smoke prediction models.

H.R. 471 includes wildfire-smoke and air-quality provisions, but they are decision-support and monitoring provisions rather than a Clean Air Act update for prescribed burns.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.471 - Fix Our Forests Act
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The CRS summary says H.R. 471 establishes requirements for managing forests on federal land, including reducing wildfire threats, expediting review of certain forest management projects, and implementing forest management projects and other activities. It also states the bill expedites review under NEPA and affects consultation under other environmental statutes.

The official summary identifies the bill as forest and wildfire legislation and names NEPA, ESA, NHPA, and related land-management laws, but not the Clean Air Act. This undercuts a finding that the specific Clean Air Act promise was fully delivered through this bill.

partial same_term A for effort

Congress.gov: H.R.471 - Fix Our Forests Act
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