[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6546 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6546

   To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
 Interior to jointly report to Congress on certain efforts to address 
             the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2020

Mr. Neguse (for himself and Mr. Curtis) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
 Interior to jointly report to Congress on certain efforts to address 
             the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wildfire and Community Health 
Response Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON WILDFIRE RISK DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

    (a) First Report.--Not later than May 31, 2020, the Secretaries 
concerned shall jointly submit to Congress a report on--
            (1) the activities that the Department of Agriculture and 
        the Department of the Interior, respectively, have carried out, 
        are carrying out, or will carry out to--
                    (A) mitigate wildfire risk during the COVID-19 
                pandemic, including activities to minimize the impact 
                of wildfires on the respiratory health of communities;
                    (B) identify methods of fuels reduction used during 
                the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize the threat of 
                wildfire on National Forest System lands and public 
                lands; and
                    (C) slow the spread of COVID-19 between 
                firefighters and emergency response teams; and
            (2) the recommendations of the Secretaries concerned with 
        respect to the Federal support necessary to carry out the 
        activities described in paragraph (1).
    (b) Second Report.--Not later than December 31, 2020, the 
Secretaries concerned shall jointly submit to Congress a report on--
            (1) the activities and recommendations described in 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a); and
            (2) the outcomes of the forest and wildfire management in 
        response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the recommendations of 
        the Secretaries with respect to such outcomes.
    (c) Secretaries Concerned Defined.--In this section, the term 
``Secretaries concerned'' means--
            (1) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National 
        Forest System lands; and
            (2) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public 
        lands.
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