Bennet, Colorado Democratic Delegation Members Ask Forest Service For Plan to Implement Forestry Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act
Colorado Lawmakers Urge USFS to Expeditiously Allocate the $10 billion from Both Laws for Forest Management
Nov 01, 2022
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, led U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), and U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.), and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) in a letter urging the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to share information about its plan to implement the $10 billion in funding in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to address a backlog of forest management needs.