[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9998

    To direct the Secretary of Defense to enter into an interagency 
memorandum of understanding for coordination on research and technology 
      priorities relating to fire science, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2026

  Ms. Pettersen (for herself and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in 
   addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and 
    Science, Space, and Technology, 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 direct the Secretary of Defense to enter into an interagency 
memorandum of understanding for coordination on research and technology 
      priorities relating to fire science, 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 Research Coordination Act 
of 2026''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR COORDINATION ON 
              RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIES RELATING TO FIRE 
              SCIENCE.

    (a) Memorandum of Understanding.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall enter 
into a joint memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of 
Agriculture (acting through the Chief of the Forest Service) and the 
Secretary of Interior, to--
            (1) identify joint fire science research and technology 
        priorities, including mitigation, ecological resilience, fire 
        and smoke modeling, response, and post-fire recovery, that 
        align with--
                    (A) the Strategic Environmental Research and 
                Development Program and the Environmental Security 
                Technology Certification Program of the Department of 
                Defense; and
                    (B) the Joint Fire Science Program of the 
                Department of Agriculture and the Department of the 
                Interior; and
            (2) direct research coordination between such programs with 
        respect to the joint priorities identified pursuant to 
        paragraph (1).
    (b) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a report on the actions taken by the Secretary to implement 
subsection (a).
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