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US HB6277
Bill
Status
11/21/2025
Primary Sponsor
Dan Newhouse
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AI Summary
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Establishes the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program to provide loan guarantees to individuals or entities that own or operate sawmills or wood-processing facilities in rural areas
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Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Interior to identify federal lands (including Indian forest land and rangeland) that are high or very high priority for ecological restoration involving vegetation removal within 1 year, and update the list every 5 years
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Loan guarantees available for establishing, reopening, retrofitting, expanding, or improving sawmills or wood-processing facilities located within 250 miles of eligible federal land
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Facilities must substantially decrease the cost of conducting ecological restoration projects involving vegetation removal on eligible federal land
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Caps total loan guarantees under the program at $220,000,000
Legislative Description
SAWMILL Act Supporting American Wood and Mill Infrastructure with Loans for Longevity Act
Public lands and natural resources
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
11/21/2025