1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act . 2. Vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance on Federal lands containing electric transmission and distribution facilities (a) In general Title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1761 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 512. Vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation, and maintenance relating to electric transmission and distribution facility rights-of-way (a) General direction In order to enhance the reliability of the electricity grid and reduce the threat of wildfires to and from electric transmission and distribution rights-of-way and related facilities and adjacent property, the Secretary, with respect to public lands and other lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, and the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System lands, shall provide direction to ensure that all existing and future rights-of-way, however established (including by grant, special use authorization, and easement), for electrical transmission and distribution facilities on such lands include provisions for utility vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance activities that, while consistent with applicable law— (1) are developed in consultation with the holder of the right-of-way; (2) enable the owner or operator of a facility to operate and maintain the facility in good working order and to comply with Federal, State and local electric system reliability and fire safety requirements, including reliability standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and plans to meet such reliability standards; (3) minimize the need for case-by-case or annual approvals for— (A) routine vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance activities within existing electrical transmission and distribution rights-of-way