Doug LaMalfa

It is critical for the survival of our communities, forests, and safety of fire crew members to utilize retardant when deemed necessary.

I support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

The use of retardant is a vital tool that our firefighters need to have at their disposal.

We must be able to fight wildfires with everything we have, and limiting firefighting agencies' ability to do so flies in the face of forest conservation and our mission to protect nearby residents.

To every single Member of the Congress in this room, it is your constituents who will be put in danger if there is injunction of fire retardant.

Since 2000, we have averaged more than 70,000 wildfires per year and an average of 7 million acres burned annually.

Across the West, we continue to face a wildfire crisis.

And we should be ashamed, totally ashamed, when we let our public lands grow up to where they are fire hazards...

The final bill before us today is the TOXIC Act, which is being led by Congressman Peters.

The ACRES Act is a simple solution to hold our Federal agencies accountable, to see the actual work they are doing will reduce the enormous risk of wildfire.

Congressman LaMalfa's bipartisan Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act will ensure our land managers are able to continue to use fire retardant to save lives, protect communities, and contain wildfires.

This bill is important for firefighters to have the tools to fight these devastating wildfires.

I fully support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

It is imperative that we enhance rather than hinder the resources to keep our private working forests operating so they can provide the clean air, pure water, and quality jobs that our nation depends on.

Thank you for your commitment to our nation's forest landowners. We look forward to working with you on more commonsense pieces of legislation this Congress.

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

I support your efforts on H.R. 1586!

It is imperative that we maintain our ability to fight wildfires effectively.

We must be able to fight wildfires with everything we have.

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

Providing a Clean Water Act exemption so that federal, state, local, and tribal firefighting agencies can continue to use fire retardant is necessary to keep this tool available.

I support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

I gladly support for H.R. 1586, Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023.

This is the wrong time to limit the use of Fire Retardants as a tool in combating these wildfires.

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.