H.R. 7695, Environmental Deregulation / Extractive Industry Access. Quorum's AI analysis reads it as a net cost — and names who bears it.
H.R. 7695 · Net cost
What it does
This bill nullifies the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protected roughly 58 million acres of National Forest from road construction, and mandates the Secretary of Agriculture to build roads on National Forest lands for restoration, fuel reduction, and other purposes.
The analysis names timber companies — and 4 more groups — among the beneficiaries.
The cost
Nullifying the Roadless Rule removes a blanket conservation standard and replaces it with case-by-case discretion—lowering the bar for road approval and shifting burden of proof from industry (justify access) to conservationists (block each project).
Transparency scores 65%. The analysis flags 1 rider and a high warning level.
Who is behind it
Filed by Harriet Hageman. Cosponsored by Celeste Maloy, Pete Stauber, Thomas Tiffany and Troy Downing.