3.0.0 3256 2020-01-29T20:30:07Z 2020-01-29T20:30:07Z Senate S S 2008-07-11 110 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-07-11T20:37:04Z FLAME Act 110 5541 HR 2008-07-10 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Related bill CRS 2008-07-11 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2008-07-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA N S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2008-09-11 False C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2008-11-19 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Building laws Building materials Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Electric power transmission Emergency Management Employee training Energy Fire fighters Fire prevention Forest fires Government Operations and Politics Government trust funds Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Housing and Community Development Labor and Employment Maps Potable water Water Resources Development Watersheds Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2008-07-11 Introduced in Senate 2008-10-23T22:14:40Z Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act or FLAME Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Fund (Flame Fund). Requires amounts in the Flame Fund to be made available to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretaries) to pay the costs of catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities that are separate from amounts annually appropriated for the predicted annual workload for such activities.

Provides for amounts in the Flame Fund to be made available to the Secretaries only after such Secretaries issue a declaration that a wildland fire suppression activity is eligible for funding through the Fund.

Directs such Secretaries to establish an accounting and reporting system for the Flame Fund.

Requires such Secretaries to: (1) report annually to Congress on the use of the funds from the Flame Fund, together with recommendations to improve administrative control and oversight of the Fund; and (2) submit a report to Congress that contains a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, consistent with the recommendations of Comptroller General reports.

Requires the Secretaries to conduct a review of wildfires for which expenses exceeding $10 million were incurred.

Authorizes the Secretaries to make grants to fire-ready communities, as defined by this Act, to carry out activities to reduce risks from wildfires.

]]> FLAME Act Short Titles as Introduced Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act Short Titles as Introduced FLAME Act Display Title FLAME Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-07-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3256is/xml/BILLS-110s3256is.xml 2008-07-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.