Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term at-risk community has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6511). The term at-risk forest means— Federal land on which there is a high risk of losing an at-risk community, key ecosystem, wildlife, or wildlife habitat to wildfire (including catastrophic wildfire and post-fire disturbances), as documented by the Secretary concerned; or Federal land in condition class II or III, as those classes were developed by the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in the general technical report entitled Development of Coarse-Scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management (RMRS–87) and dated April 2000 (including any subsequent revision to the report).
The term authorized wildfire prevention project means the measures and methods developed for a project to be carried out in an at-risk forest or on threatened and endangered species habitat by the Secretary concerned for the purpose of hazardous fuels reduction, forest health, forest restoration, watershed restoration, or threatened and endangered species habitat protection. The term authorized wildfire prevention project includes livestock grazing and timber harvest projects carried out for one or more of the purposes described in subparagraph (A).
The term Federal land means— land of the National Forest System (as defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1609(a) )); or public land. The term Federal land does not include land in which the removal of vegetation is specifically prohibited by Federal law unless the land is in an inventoried roadless area or wilderness study area. The term public land has the meaning given the term public lands in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1702 ).
The term Secretary concerned means— the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land of the National Forest System described in paragraph (4)(A)(i); and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public land. The term threatened and endangered species habitat means Federal land on which natural fire regimes are identified as being important for, or wildfire is identified as a threat to, an endangered species, a threatened species, or habitat of an endangered species or threatened species in— a species recovery plan prepared under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1533 ); or a notice published in the Federal Register that— determines a species to be an endangered species or a threatened species; or designates critical habitat for an endangered species or a threatened species.
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