Sec. 12. Research for effectiveness and standards
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To assess the effectiveness of fire protection strategies, the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (referred to in this section as the Secretary ), shall— establish a national team to collect data following wildfires in the wildland-urban interface; and implement a research plan to link economic outcomes with wildfire mitigation actions by— understanding the relative contribution of fuels configuration, weather, and terrain; quantifying the cost of providing the current level of fire protection; understanding the losses resulting from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface; and using performance metrics to assess the effectiveness of current designs, materials, and technologies.
The Secretary shall develop optimal time-to-response standards for a firefighting agency to reach a wildfire in the wildland-urban interface. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall— coordinate with the Secretaries; and partner with administrators of firefighting agencies that protect communities from wildfires.