[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 138 (Tuesday, August 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5762-S5765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2399. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema 
(for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. 
Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the 
bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway 
safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VIII of division D, add the following:

     SEC. 408___. WESTERN WILDFIRE SUPPORT.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Congressional committees.--The term ``congressional 
     committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Federal land.--The term ``Federal land'' means--
       (A) public lands (as defined in section 103 of the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702));
       (B) units of the National Park System;
       (C) units of the National Wildlife Refuge System;
       (D) land held in trust by the United States for the benefit 
     of Indian Tribes or members of an Indian Tribe; and
       (E) land in the National Forest System.
       (3) National forest system.--
       (A) In general.--The term ``National Forest System'' has 
     the meaning given the term in section 11(a) of the Forest and 
     Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
     1609(a)).
       (B) Exclusion.--The term ``National Forest System'' does 
     not include--
       (i) the national grasslands and land utilization projects 
     administered under title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm 
     Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010 et seq.); or
       (ii) National Forest System land east of the 100th 
     meridian.
       (4) Secretaries.--The term ``Secretaries'' means--
       (A) the Secretary of the Interior; and
       (B) the Secretary of Agriculture.
       (5) Secretary concerned.--The term ``Secretary concerned'' 
     means--
       (A) the Secretary of the Interior, in the case of Federal 
     land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior; 
     and
       (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, in the case of Federal 
     land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture.
       (b) Preparation.--
       (1) Firefighting accounts.--
       (A) Establishment of accounts.--There are established in 
     the Treasury of the United States the following accounts:
       (i) The Firefighting Operations account for the Department 
     of Agriculture.
       (ii) The Firefighting Operations account for the Department 
     of the Interior.
       (B) Budget activities within accounts.--The following 
     activities shall be specified for funding within each 
     Firefighting Operations account established by subparagraph 
     (A):
       (i) Ground-based firefighting operations.
       (ii) Aircraft use in firefighting operations.
       (C) Authorization of appropriations.--
       (i) Ground-based firefighting operations.--

       (I) Department of agriculture.--There is authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year 
     thereafter to the account established by subparagraph (A)(i) 
     not more than $3,000,000,000 for ground-based firefighting 
     operations.
       (II) Department of the interior.--There is authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year 
     thereafter to the account established by subparagraph (A)(ii) 
     not more than $1,000,000,000 for ground-based firefighting 
     operations.

       (ii) Aircraft use in firefighting operations.--There is 
     authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each 
     fiscal year thereafter to the accounts established by 
     subparagraph (A), a total amount of not more than 
     $500,000,000 for aircraft use in firefighting operations.
       (D) Presidential budget requests.--For fiscal year 2023 and 
     each fiscal year thereafter, each Secretary concerned shall 
     submit through the budget request of the President and in 
     accordance with subparagraph (C), a request for amounts in 
     the Wildland Fire Management appropriation account of the 
     Secretary concerned to carry out the activities described in 
     subparagraph (E).
       (E) Authorized activities.--
       (i) In general.--The Secretaries shall use amounts provided 
     to the respective accounts established under subparagraph (A) 
     as follows:

       (I) The Secretary of Agriculture shall use amounts 
     appropriated under subparagraph (C)(i)(I) to carry out 
     management activities for active wildfires through the Forest 
     Service, except that none of the amounts may be used for the 
     operation of aircraft.
       (II) The Secretary of the Interior shall use amounts 
     appropriated under subparagraph (C)(i)(II) to carry out 
     management activities for active wildfires, except that none 
     of the amounts may be used for the operation of aircraft.
       (III) The Secretary concerned shall use amounts 
     appropriated under subparagraph (C)(ii) to acquire, by 
     contract or purchase, and use aircraft, including unmanned 
     aerial systems, for operations relating to wildland fires.

       (ii) Limitation.--The Secretary concerned shall not use to 
     carry out any activity authorized by clause (i)(III) amounts 
     appropriated to accounts of the Secretary concerned other 
     than amounts in the accounts established by subparagraph (A) 
     specified for activities described in subparagraph (B)(ii).
       (F) Accounting reports.--
       (i) In general.--Each Secretary concerned shall submit to 
     the congressional committees monthly accounting reports 
     regarding the amounts that have been obligated and expended 
     under this paragraph during the preceding month of the 
     applicable fiscal year.
       (ii) Inclusions.--Each report under clause (i) shall 
     include a description of, with respect to the period covered 
     by the report--

       (I) Federal ground-based equipment costs;
       (II) Federal aircraft use costs;
       (III) Federal personnel costs;
       (IV) on-incident and off-incident support costs; and
       (V) funding allocated from the Wildland Fire Management 
     account of the Secretary concerned to pay for administrative 
     costs.

       (iii) Requirements.--Each report under clause (i) shall be 
     prepared in accordance with applicable national fire plan 
     reporting procedures.
       (2) Reimbursement for wildfires caused by military 
     training.--
       (A) Reimbursement required.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall, on application by a State or Federal agency, reimburse 
     the State or Federal agency for the reasonable costs of the 
     State or Federal agency for services provided in connection 
     with fire suppression as a result of a fire caused by 
     military training or other actions carried out by the Armed 
     Forces or employees of the Department of Defense.
       (B) Limitation.--Services reimbursable under subparagraph 
     (A) shall be limited to services proximately related to the 
     fire for which reimbursement is sought.
       (C) Application.--Each application from a State or Federal 
     agency for reimbursement for costs under subparagraph (A) 
     shall provide an itemized request of the services covered by 
     the application, including the costs of the services.
       (D) Funds.--Reimbursements under subparagraph (A) shall be 
     made from amounts authorized to be appropriated to the 
     Department of Defense for operation and maintenance.
       (3) Strategic wildland fire management planning.--
       (A) In general.--Not later than September 30, 2024, the 
     Secretary concerned shall, in accordance with this paragraph, 
     establish a series of spatial fire management plans.
       (B) Use of existing plans.--To comply with this paragraph, 
     the Secretary concerned may use a fire management plan in 
     existence on the date of enactment of this Act.
       (C) Updates.--To be valid, a spatial fire management plan 
     established under this paragraph shall not be in use for 
     longer than the 10-year period beginning on the date on which 
     the plan is established.
       (D) Sub-unit plans.--The Secretary concerned shall 
     establish a spatial fire management plan for each unit of 
     Federal land with more than 10 acres of burnable vegetation 
     under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned.
       (E) Contents.--For each spatial fire management plan 
     established under this paragraph, the Secretary concerned 
     shall--
       (i) base the plans on a landscape-scale risk assessment 
     that includes--

       (I) risks to firefighters;
       (II) risks to communities;
       (III) risks to highly valuable resources; and
       (IV) other relevant considerations determined by the 
     Secretary concerned;

       (ii) include direction, represented in spatial form, from 
     land management plans and resource management plans;
       (iii) in coordination with States, delineate potential 
     wildland fire operational delineations that--

       (I) identify potential control locations; and
       (II) specify the places in which firefighters will not be 
     sent because of the presence of unacceptable risk, including 
     areas determined by the Secretary concerned as--

       (aa) exceeding a certain slope;
       (bb) containing too high of a volume of hazardous fuels, 
     under certain weather conditions; or
       (cc) containing other known hazards;
       (iv) include a determination of average severe fire weather 
     for the plan area;

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       (v) include prefire planning provisions;
       (vi) include a plan for postfire activities that--

       (I) would better enable a Burned Area Emergency Response 
     Team working on a large fire incident to address emergency 
     stabilization and erosion quickly; and
       (II) specifies ways in which the Burned Area Emergency 
     Response Team would seek to prevent the proliferation of 
     invasive species in working on the large fire incident; and

       (vii) include, at a minimum, any other requirement 
     determined to be necessary by the Secretary concerned.
       (F) Consistency with management plans.--The spatial fire 
     management plans established under this paragraph shall be 
     consistent with the fire management objectives and land 
     management objectives in the applicable land management plan 
     or resource management plan.
       (G) Revisions to land management plans and resource 
     management plans.--A revision to a land management plan or 
     resource management plan shall consider fire ecology and fire 
     management in a manner that facilitates the issuance of 
     direction for an incident response.
       (H) Engagement during land management planning.--A 
     supervisory employee of the Department of the Interior or the 
     Department of Agriculture that is funded through a 
     Firefighting Operations account established under paragraph 
     (1) shall participate directly in the creation or revision of 
     an applicable land management plan or resource management 
     plan to incorporate an assessment, protocol, or plan 
     developed under this section into the planning process.
       (4) Accounts to assist communities in planning and 
     preparing for wildfires.--
       (A) Establishment of accounts.--There are established in 
     the Treasury of the United States the following accounts:
       (i) The Community-Supported Land-Use Planning Assistance 
     account for the Department of Agriculture.
       (ii) The Community-Supported Land-Use Planning Assistance 
     account for the Department of the Interior.
       (B) Budget activities within accounts.--The following 
     activities shall be specified for funding within each 
     Community-Supported Land-Use Planning Assistance account 
     established by subparagraph (A):
       (i) The Firewise Program operated by the National Fire 
     Protection Association.
       (ii) Community wildfire protection programs.
       (iii) The Fire-Adapted Communities Learning Network.
       (iv) Vegetation management by communities.
       (C) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year 
     thereafter for the accounts established by subparagraph (A) 
     such sums as are necessary to carry out this paragraph, not 
     to exceed $200,000,000.
       (D) Presidential budget requests.--For fiscal year 2023 and 
     each fiscal year thereafter, each Secretary concerned shall 
     submit through the budget request of the President and in 
     accordance with subparagraph (C), a request for amounts in 
     the Wildland Fire Management appropriation account of the 
     Secretary concerned to carry out the activities described in 
     subparagraph (B).
       (E) Authorized activities.--The Secretary concerned shall 
     use amounts in the accounts established by subparagraph (A) 
     as follows:
       (i) With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity 
     described in subparagraph (B)(i), the Secretary concerned 
     may--

       (I) cosponsor the Firewise Program; and
       (II) support the expansion of the Firewise Communities/USA 
     Recognition Program to additional at-risk communities.

       (ii) With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity 
     described in subparagraph(B)(ii), the Secretary concerned may 
     provide assistance to at-risk communities to establish and 
     revise--

       (I) a community wildfire protection plan (as defined in 
     section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 
     (16 U.S.C. 6511)); or
       (II) a community evacuation plan.

       (iii) With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity 
     described in subparagraph (B)(iii), the Secretary concerned 
     shall establish a small grant program to address local hazard 
     reduction on Federal, State, or private land, subject to the 
     conditions that--

       (I) a grant provided under the program--

       (aa) may be awarded to an organization in an at-risk 
     community to address, in a sole instance, a hazardous fuel in 
     a specific location, including piling and burning, and 
     implementing a prescribed fire on private land;
       (bb) shall not exceed $20,000; and
       (cc) shall require cost-sharing assistance in an amount 
     equal to not less than 10 percent of the amount of the grant;

       (II) the work identified for funding under the grant shall 
     be accomplished by a team composed of, at a minimum--

       (aa) a private citizen;
       (bb) a representative of a nonprofit organization; and
       (cc) a local fire department, including a volunteer fire 
     department;

       (III) to be eligible for a grant under the program, a 
     strategic plan outlining the means by which the applicant 
     will address a hazardous fuel shall be submitted to the 
     Secretary concerned; and
       (IV) on completion of a grant project, the grant recipient 
     shall--

       (aa) submit to the Secretary concerned a report; and
       (bb) participate in training another grant recipient during 
     the following fiscal year.
       (iv) With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity 
     described in subparagraph (B)(iv), the Secretary concerned 
     may provide cost-sharing assistance for the establishment and 
     operation of a local program in an at-risk community to 
     assist homeowners in the disposal of brush and slash 
     generated by hazard reduction activities.
       (5) Community support during disaster response.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretaries shall establish a program 
     to train and certify a citizen who wishes to be able to 
     volunteer to assist the Secretaries during a wildland fire 
     incident.
       (B) Service.--
       (i) In general.--The Secretaries shall establish several 
     categories of service for each manner in which a volunteer 
     certified under this paragraph may provide assistance.
       (ii) Direct suppression of wildland fires.--No volunteer 
     certified under this paragraph may engage in an operation to 
     directly suppress a wildland fire.
       (iii) Direction.--A volunteer under this paragraph shall--

       (I) report to a designee of an incident commander prior to 
     providing any assistance on a wildland fire; and
       (II) operate continuously under the direction of the 
     designee while providing assistance on a wildland fire.

       (C) Certification.--
       (i) Criteria.--

       (I) In general.--The Secretaries shall certify volunteers 
     to provide assistance for each category of service 
     established under subparagraph (B).
       (II) Establishment of criteria.--The Secretaries shall 
     establish criteria for a volunteer to be certified for each 
     category of service.
       (III) Attendance.--Attendance at training conducted under 
     clause (ii) shall be 1 of the criteria established under 
     subclause (II).
       (IV) Assessment.--The Secretaries shall assess the 
     knowledge, skills, or abilities, of a person prior to 
     certifying a person to become a volunteer.

       (ii) Training.--

       (I) In general.--The Secretaries shall regularly conduct 
     training for citizens who desire to be certified as 
     volunteers.
       (II) Content.--The training shall include, at a minimum, a 
     safety component in an effort to minimize inherent threats to 
     volunteers and maximize the safety of a volunteer, to the 
     maximum extent practicable, as a volunteer provides 
     assistance on a wildland fire.
       (III) Frequency.--The Secretaries shall offer, at a 
     minimum, 1 training session in each State with significant 
     wildfire risk, not less than every 2 years.

       (iii) Identification.--

       (I) In general.--On the certification of a volunteer, the 
     Secretary concerned shall provide to the volunteer a means of 
     identification as a volunteer.
       (II) Display.--A volunteer certified under this paragraph 
     shall display, continuously while assisting in a wildland 
     fire, the means of identification.

       (c) Wildfire Detection and Suppression Support.--
       (1) Wildfire detection equipment.--To the extent 
     practicable, the Secretary concerned shall--
       (A) expedite the placement of wildfire detection equipment, 
     such as sensors, cameras, and other relevant equipment, in 
     areas at risk of wildfire;
       (B) expand the use of satellite data to assist wildfire 
     response; and
       (C) expedite any permitting required by the Secretary 
     concerned for the installation, maintenance, or removal of 
     wildfire detection equipment.
       (2) Grant program for slip-on tank units.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretaries shall establish a program 
     to award to an eligible State or unit of local government 
     each year grants to acquire slip-on tank and pump units 
     (referred to in this paragraph as ``slip-on units'') for a 
     surge capacity of resources for fire suppression.
       (B) Eligibility.--
       (i) In general.--To be eligible to receive a grant under 
     this paragraph, a State or unit of local government shall--

       (I) submit an application at such time, in such manner, and 
     containing such information as the Secretaries may require; 
     and
       (II) contribute non-Federal funds in accordance with clause 
     (ii).

       (ii) Cost-share requirements.--The non-Federal share of the 
     cost of acquiring slip-on units using a grant under this 
     paragraph shall be not less than 25 percent.
       (C) Use of funds.--
       (i) In general.--Grants awarded under this paragraph shall 
     be used only for the acquisition of not fewer than 30 slip-on 
     units.
       (ii) Restrictions.--A recipient of a grant under this 
     paragraph--

       (I) shall be responsible for the cost of the maintenance 
     and use of the slip-on units; and
       (II) may not use grant funds for a cost described in 
     subclause (I).

       (D) Requirements for operation of slip-on units.--A 
     recipient of a grant under this paragraph shall--
       (i) in maintaining and storing the slip-on units--

       (I) store and mount a slip-on unit on a vehicle only 
     during--

       (aa) a period of extreme fire danger; or

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       (bb) an active wildland fire;

       (II) designate a vehicle and personnel to be used with each 
     slip-on unit;
       (III) make any necessary modification to a designated 
     vehicle to ensure compatibility with the use of the slip-on 
     unit;
       (IV) train designated personnel to use the slip-on unit;
       (V) ensure designated personnel possess elementary wildland 
     fire management skills, including post-fire-front structure-
     protection tactics; and
       (VI) maintain each slip-on unit in good, usable condition 
     for a period of not fewer than 20 years;

       (ii) during a large, active wildland fire--

       (I) staff each designated vehicle equipped with a slip-on 
     unit with--
       (II) a person designated under clause (i)(II); and
       (III) a trained firefighter, regardless of whether the 
     trained firefighter is paid, volunteer, or off-duty but paid;

       (iii) organize each designated vehicle equipped with a 
     slip-on unit into a team with other designated vehicles under 
     the direction of a qualified task force leader; and
       (iv) use each designated vehicle equipped with a slip-on 
     unit primarily for the purpose of following behind the 
     wildland fire front--

       (I) to prevent homes from igniting; and
       (II) to alert fire engines of structures that have ignited; 
     and

       (v) comply with any other requirements determined to be 
     necessary by the Secretaries, including any minimum 
     requirements for a slip-on unit and any additional required 
     equipment.
       (3) Assistance to states for operation of air tankers.--The 
     Secretary concerned may provide funding to States to enable 
     States to operate not more than 50 single-engine air tankers 
     if--
       (A) the single-engine air tanker is government-owned and 
     contractor-operated or government-owned and government-
     operated;
       (B) a State receiving funding for a single-engine air 
     tanker under this paragraph shares the cost with the 
     Secretary of the acquisition and operation of the aircraft; 
     and
       (C) the single-engine air tanker--
       (i) shall be used for initial attack; and
       (ii) shall not be used for large fire aviation support.
       (4) Research and development of unmanned aircraft system 
     fire applications.--
       (A) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
       (i) Covered unmanned aircraft test range.--The term 
     ``covered unmanned aircraft test range'' means a test range 
     that is approved of or designated by the Administrator of the 
     Federal Aviation Administration for the testing of unmanned 
     aircraft systems, as required under section 44803 of title 
     49, United States Code.
       (ii) Unmanned aircraft system.--The term ``unmanned 
     aircraft system'' means an unmanned aircraft and associated 
     elements (including communication links and the components 
     that control the unmanned aircraft) that are required for the 
     operator to operate safely and efficiently in the national 
     airspace system of the Federal Aviation Administration.
       (B) Joint fire science program.--The Secretary of the 
     Interior shall, acting through the Joint Fire Science 
     Program, work with covered unmanned aircraft test ranges to 
     carry out research and development of unmanned aircraft 
     system fire applications.
       (C) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior such sums 
     as are necessary to carry out this paragraph.
       (5) Study on effects of drone incursions on wildfire 
     suppression.--
       (A) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
       (i) Drone.--The term ``drone'' means an unmanned aircraft 
     system owned by a private individual or entity.
       (ii) Drone incursion.--The term ``drone incursion'' means 
     the operation of a drone within any airspace for which the 
     Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration has 
     issued a temporary flight restriction because of a wildfire.
       (iii) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the 
     Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
     Bureau of Land Management.
       (B) Study required.--The Secretary, in consultation with 
     the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the 
     Forest Service, shall conduct a study on the effects of drone 
     incursions on wildfire suppression with respect to land 
     managed by the Department of the Interior or the Department 
     of Agriculture.
       (C) Study contents.--In conducting the study required under 
     subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall--
       (i) determine, for each of the 5 most recent calendar 
     years--

       (I) the number of occurrences in which a drone incursion 
     interfered with wildfire suppression; and
       (II) the effect of each occurrence described in subclause 
     (I) on--

       (aa) the length of time required to achieve complete 
     suppression;
       (bb) the effectiveness of aerial firefighting responses; 
     and
       (cc) the amounts expended by the Federal Government; and
       (ii) evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of various 
     actions to prevent drone incursions, including--

       (I) the use of reasonable force to disable, damage, or 
     destroy a drone;
       (II) the seizure of a drone, including seizure with a net 
     device; and
       (III) the dissemination of educational materials relating 
     to the effects of drone incursions on wildfire suppression.

       (D) Report.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and 
     the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
     Representatives a report describing--
       (i) the findings of the study required under subparagraph 
     (B); and
       (ii) any recommendations of the Secretary relating to those 
     findings.
       (6) Study on wildfire detection equipment and integration 
     of artificial intelligence technologies.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretaries shall conduct a study on--
       (i) the effectiveness and limitations on the deployment and 
     application of each wildfire detection equipment technology 
     with respect to detection, confirmation, geolocation, 
     predictability of wildfire spread, suppression resource 
     management, post-fire forensics, and surface rehabilitation;
       (ii) how each technology described in clause (i), with 
     proper and timely deployment and use, can provide for the 
     most effective and efficient means of dealing with the threat 
     and the reality of wildland fires;
       (iii) the integration of artificial intelligence with real-
     time imagery and weather data provided by wildfire detection 
     equipment technology; and
       (iv) how the integration of artificial intelligence 
     described in clause (iii) can enhance the value of each 
     wildfire detection equipment technology, individually and 
     collectively.
       (B) Submission and public availability.--Not later than 2 
     years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretaries shall submit to the congressional committees and 
     make publicly available the results of the study conducted 
     under subparagraph (A).
       (d) Post-fire Recovery Support.--
       (1) Funding for online guides for post-fire assistance.--
       (A) Use of services of other agencies.--Section 201(a) of 
     the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5131(a)) is amended--
       (i) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (ii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(8) post-disaster assistance.''.
       (B) Funding for online guides for assistance.--Section 201 
     of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5131) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following:
       ``(e) Funding for Online Guides for Assistance.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Administrator of the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency may enter into a cooperative 
     agreement to provide funding to a State agency established 
     under subsection (c) to establish and operate a website to 
     provide information relating to post-fire recovery funding 
     and resources to a community or an individual impacted by a 
     wildland fire.
       ``(2) Management.--A website created under this subsection 
     shall be--
       ``(A) managed by the State agency; and
       ``(B) suitable for the residents of the State of the State 
     agency.
       ``(3) Content.--The Administrator may enter into a 
     cooperative agreement to establish a website under this 
     subsection only to provide 1 or more of the following:
       ``(A) A list of Federal, State, and local sources of post-
     fire recovery funding or assistance that may be available to 
     a community after a wildfire.
       ``(B) A list of Federal, State, and local sources of post-
     fire recovery funding or assistance that may be available to 
     an individual impacted by a wildfire.
       ``(C) A technical guide that lists and explains the costs 
     and benefits of alternatives available to a community to 
     mitigate the impacts of wildfire and prepare for potential 
     flooding.
       ``(4) Cooperation.--A State agency that enters into a 
     cooperative agreement under this subsection shall cooperate 
     with the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency in developing a website under this 
     subsection.
       ``(5) Updates.--A State agency that receives funding to 
     establish a website under this subsection shall update the 
     website not less than once every 6 years.''.
       (2) Long-term burned area recovery account.--
       (A) Establishment of account.--There is established in the 
     Treasury of the United States the Long-Term Burned Area 
     Recovery account for the Department of Agriculture.
       (B) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year 
     thereafter for the account established by subparagraph (A) 
     such sums as are necessary to carry out the activities 
     described in subparagraph (D), not to exceed $100,000,000.
       (C) Presidential budget requests.--For fiscal year 2023 and 
     each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture 
     shall submit through the budget request of the President and 
     in accordance with subparagraph (B), a request for amounts in 
     the Wildland Fire Management appropriation account to carry 
     out the activities described in subparagraph (D).
       (D) Authorized activities.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
     shall use amounts in the account established by subparagraph 
     (A) for rehabilitation projects--

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       (i) that begin not earlier than 1 year after the date on 
     which the wildfire was contained;
       (ii) that are--

       (I) scheduled to be completed not later than 3 years after 
     the date on which the wildfire was contained; and
       (II) located at sites impacted by wildfire on non-Federal 
     or Federal land;

       (iii) that restore the functions of an ecosystem or protect 
     life or property; and
       (iv) not less than 10 percent of the total costs of which 
     are paid for with non-Federal funds.
       (E) Prioritization of funding.--The Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall prioritize, on a nationwide basis, projects 
     for which funding requests are submitted under this 
     paragraph, based on--
       (i) downstream effects on water resources; and
       (ii) public safety.
       (3) Prize for wildfire-related invasive species 
     reduction.--Section 7001(d) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. 
     Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (16 U.S.C. 742b 
     note; Public Law 116-9) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``paragraph (8)(A)'' each place it appears 
     and inserting ``paragraph (9)(A)'';
       (B) by striking ``paragraph (8)(B)'' each place it appears 
     and inserting ``paragraph (9)(B)'';
       (C) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9);
       (D) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
       ``(8) Theodore roosevelt genius prize for management of 
     wildfire-related invasive species.--
       ``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
       ``(i) Board.--The term `Board' means the Management of 
     Wildfire-Related Invasive Species Technology Advisory Board 
     established by subparagraph (C)(i).
       ``(ii) Prize competition.--The term `prize competition' 
     means the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize for the management 
     of wildfire-related invasive species established under 
     subparagraph (B).
       ``(B) Authority.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of the ________