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Policies that Affect Wildfire Management

This section describes the following major national environmental legislation, giving a summary, and a flowchart of the processes to be followed to help understand them. Also provided for each are brief annotations of a few major cases involving the law, a link to the full text of the law, and a reference list with links.

• Clean Air Act of 1990 (CAA)
• Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA)
• Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA)
• Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (1995, revised 2001)
• Healthy Forests Restoration Act (2003)
• National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA)
• National Fire Plan (2000)
• Wilderness Act of 1964 (WA)