43 U.S.C. § 1748b — Cohesive wildfire management strategy
submitted 17 years ago by Pub. L. 111-88 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 212 words · no verdicts yet
The Interior and Agriculture Secretaries must jointly submit and periodically revise a cohesive wildfire-management strategy. The strategy must address costs, programs, wildfire response, community risk, fuels, climate change, and invasive species.
(a) Within one year after October 30, 2009, the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries, jointly, must send Congress a cohesive wildfire-management strategy consistent with recent Government Accountability Office management-strategy recommendations. (b) The strategy must: (1) identify the most cost-effective allocation of fire-management budget resources; (2) reinvest in non-fire programs; (3) use the appropriate response to wildfires; (4) assess community risk; (5) allocate hazardous-fuels funds according to project priority; (6) assess climate change’s effect on wildfire frequency and severity; and (7) study invasive species’ effect on wildfire risk. (c) At least once in each five-year period after submitting the strategy, the Secretaries must revise it for changes affecting it, including landscape, vegetation, climate, and weather changes.
Not later than one year after October 30, 2009, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting jointly, shall submit to Congress a report that contains a cohesive wildfire management strategy, consistent with the recommendations described in recent reports of the Government Accountability Office regarding management strategies.
The strategy required by subsection (a) shall provide for—
the identification of the most cost-effective means for allocating fire management budget resources;
the reinvestment in non-fire programs by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture;
employing the appropriate management response to wildfires;
assessing the level of risk to communities;
the allocation of hazardous fuels reduction funds based on the priority of hazardous fuels reduction projects;
assessing the impacts of climate change on the frequency and severity of wildfire; and
studying the effects of invasive species on wildfire risk.
At least once during each five-year period beginning on the date of the submission of the cohesive wildfire management strategy under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise the strategy to address any changes affecting the strategy, including changes with respect to landscape, vegetation, climate, and weather.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–88, div. A, title V, § 503, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2971.)
- 2009Enacted · Pub. L. 111-88 · 123 Stat. 2971
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 111-88 on 2009-10-30.
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