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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A caller portion of authorities seeks to expedite the process of clearing retired hazardous trees adjacent powerfulness lines connected national onshore to forestall devastating wood fires.
Congressman David Valadao, on with Representative Salud Carbajal, introduced the Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act connected Wednesday.
Valadao says the enactment is, "a precise targeted attack to spell aft a circumstantial issue."
According to Valadao, the Forest Service presently has an full process that "can truly dilatory down, getting a occurrence hazard retired of the way."
The process includes selling timber, getting bids, and getting permits to chopped down hazardous trees adjacent powerfulness lines.
Valadao says the caller authorities would let the Forest Service to supply lasting support for electrical utilities to region hazardous trees adjacent powerfulness lines connected national onshore without requiring a timber sale.
"You request to get that retired of the mode arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," Valadao said. "As soon arsenic it's deemed a threat, it should beryllium cleared and our extremity is to get that arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."
Valadao says the authorities is precise precise for bully reason.
"A batch of radical astir the state hold that we person to bash a amended occupation of managing our forests... I conscionable don't cognize if we tin get bipartisan enactment connected that," Valadao said. "This portion of authorities is precise circumstantial to 1 of the things that ends up causing a batch of fires for america successful California."
