Sec. 4. Additional accountability
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For each fiscal year, the Secretaries shall conduct a cost review of each wildfire that covers an area greater than 100,000 acres. The cost review under subsection
(a)shall document costs and risk-based factors that influenced management decisions for each wildfire, including— a comparison of the total suppression cost to a stratified cost index; the percentage of acres burned with resource benefits; the percentage of Federal land burned and the percentage of the total suppression costs ultimately paid by the Secretaries; the number of hours of exposure experienced by firefighters; the effectiveness of wildfire management decisions, including— an analysis of the estimated monetary value of the resources protected; the risk to the resources from the wildfire; the costs incurred or that would have been incurred to protect the resources; the impact of any actions taken to protect the resources; and whether the resources were damaged by the wildfire; the total cost of aircraft for the wildfire, including— the cost of delivering water or fire retardant to the wildfire incurred after the initial attack; and the cost of aircraft use incurred after the wildfire is contained; whether the fire operations strategy tracked the relevant spatial wildfire risk assessment and spatial fire management plan; and any other costs or factors that the Secretaries determine to be appropriate. The Secretaries shall— submit annually to the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report describing the information required under subsection (a); and make the report submitted under paragraph
(1)available to the public.