Sec. 5. Incentive for cost savings
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Amounts made available in an annual appropriations Act for wildfire management operations in the Wildland Fire Management account of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture for a fiscal year that are not expended for that fiscal year may be available to the Secretary concerned for wildfire risk reduction projects on Federal land (including land held in trust for an Indian tribe with the approval of the Indian tribe) in accordance with subsection (b). In providing amounts made available to the Secretary concerned under subsection (a), the Secretary concerned shall give priority to projects that are— conducted in areas that— are within or adjacent to— at-risk communities; or high-value watersheds; have very high wildfire hazard potential; and are in Fire Regime Group I, II, or III; and designed to achieve one or more of the goals established in the report of the Secretaries entitled The National Strategy: the Final Phase of the Development of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy and dated April 2014— to create fire-adapted communities; to restore and maintain resilient landscapes; and to achieve safe, effective fire response.
The Secretary concerned shall submit with the annual budget of the United States submitted by the President under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a list of projects to be implemented using amounts made available to the Secretary concerned under subsection (a).