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| https://walden.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/case-you-missed-it-bulletin-september-house-agenda-includes-two-oregon | In Case You Missed It: The Bulletin: "September House agenda includes two Oregon bills" | 2014-09-05 | 2014 | 2014-09 | Republican | House | OR | Greg Walden | W000791 | walden.house.gov | legacy | In Case You Missed It: The Bulletin: September House agenda includes two Oregon bills HOOD RIVER The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this month on two pieces of legislation championed by Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) that would reform federal forest policy and bring more water and power to Crook County for job creation. According to an article in this morning's Bulletin, Both of the Oregon-related bills passed the House in 2013, but have not been taken up by the Democrat-controlled Senate. (read the full article below). These bipartisan bills will help grow Oregon's rural economy, improve forest health, prevent wildfire, and bring more water and power to Central Oregon for job creation. They have both passed the U.S. House previously with strong support, and the House will pass them again to underscore how important these bills are to Oregon. The U.S. Senate should pass them right away to bring much needed jobs to Oregon's rural communities, Walden said. The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act (H.R. 1526) renews the federal government's commitment to actively manage federal forests to create jobs in the woods, improve forest health, reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, and generate revenue for local communities to provide essential local services like schools and law enforcement. The bill also contains the O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act, a plan offered by Walden and Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader to deal with Oregon's unique O&C lands. It passed the House with a bipartisan majority on September 20, 2013, but has not been taken up by the Senate. The Central Oregon Jobs and Water Security Act (H.R. 2640), introduced by Walden, fixes a boundary line error at Bowman Dam in Crook County, paving the way for construction of a small scale hydropower facility at the base of the dam. It would also provide job-creating water for the city of Prineville to attract additional projects like Facebook and Apple. This bill has passed the House twice unanimouslyon July 6, 2012, and October 29, 2013but the full Senate has not voted on it so far. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced yesterday that these two bills would be included as portions of two jobs packages that the House will vote on this month. These common-sense plans will help create jobs nationwide, strengthen the economy, and lower the cost of gas and groceries. September House agenda includes two Oregon bills Legislation on timber payments, Bowman Dam to be packaged into larger bills By Andrew Clevenger Published Sep 5, 2014 at 12:02AM https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/2383984-153/september-house-agenda-includes-two-oregon-bills WASHINGTON Two pending bills with the potential for significant consequences for Central Oregon have been placed on the House of Representatives' legislative agenda for September as part of larger legislative packages. In a memo released Thursday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced his plans for the House once members return from the August recess. With a dwindling number of legislative days left before members head out on the campaign trail, McCarthy wants to bundle together pending bills to economize precious floor time. Two of the bills on the September agenda pertain especially to Oregon. The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, which would revise federal forest management policy to require increased logging to pay for timber payments to rural counties, includes a section devoted entirely to reworking the oversight of the Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands known as the O&C Lands in Western Oregon. The forestry reform bill would be included in a larger package of bills geared toward creating jobs. A bill that would authorize the release of some of the unallocated water behind Bowman Dam is also on the September agenda as part of a larger energy bill. In addition to allowing 5,100 acre-feet of unallocated water behind the dam to flow into the Crooked River, which would enable Prineville to seek permission from the state to pump more groundwater for its own use, the Bowman Dam bill would open the 240-foot-high dam to hydropower development by moving the Wild and Scenic River boundary line about a quarter mile down the river, away from its current location in the center of the dam. McCarthy's memo did not specify when the larger packages of bills might come up for votes. Our government today lacks common sense and competency. And the American people know it, McCarthy wrote in his memo. Our conservative agenda is about restoring competency and common sense in government and giving Americans the freedom to live their lives, run their businesses, and raise their families. Both of the Oregon-related bills passed the House in 2013, but have not been taken up by the Democrat-controlled Senate. A similar version of the Bowman Dam bill has been introduced in the Senate but has stalled short of a floor vote. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, introduced the Bowman Dam bill in the House and co-wrote the O&C Lands section of the forestry reform bill with Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, and Kurt Schrader, D-Canby. Passing these bipartisan bills to bring more water and power to Prineville and fix broken federal forest policy will create jobs in Central Oregon, Andrew Malcolm, Walden's spokesman, said Thursday. Crook County continues to suffer from double-digit unemployment, which is why the House, for a third time, will pass the Bowman Dam bill that Greg wrote to bring jobs, water, and power to Prineville. Malcolm noted that Oregon was beset by wildfires again this summer. Nearly a year ago, the House passed a bipartisan plan that Greg helped write to fix broken federal forest policy, put people back to work in the woods and improve forest health. So far, the Senate has not voted on either of these common-sense bills, so the House will pass them again to make it as easy as possible for the Senate to act, he said. Pending legislation that is not passed into law before a new Congress is sworn in in January does not carry over to the new session and must be reintroduced and go through the process over again. Read the article online here. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |