For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 3, 2003
Statement by the Press Secretary
Today the President signed the following bill into law:
H.R. 1904, the "Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003," to
improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary
of the Interior to conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on
National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed
at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands
from catastrophic wildfire, and to enhance efforts to protect
watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health,
including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape.
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