Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The term Chief means the Chief of the Forest Service. The term community wildfire defense plan means a plan that— is developed by an eligible entity in coordination with— the local community and government; local law enforcement, firefighters, first responders, fire managers, and utilities; and State agencies responsible for emergency response and forest management; includes strategies and activities relating to— improving evacuations and access for first responders; addressing vulnerable populations, including the elderly, those with disabilities, and the homeless; hardening and increasing the resiliency of critical infrastructure and homes, including through incentive programs; applying community-scale defensible space projects across contiguous areas; building local capacity to implement and oversee the plan; implementing strategic land use planning; deploying distributed energy resources that do not increase dependence on fossil fuels; educating community members; coordinating any existing wildfire plans such as a community wildfire protection plan or a community emergency evacuation plan; and incorporating information from a map generated pursuant to section 210(a) of division O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 ( 16 U.S.C. 6501 note;
Public Law 115–141 ); and may consist of existing plans or other efforts, provided that the plan complies with subparagraphs
(A)and (B). The term critical infrastructure means any public safety, health, education, transportation, communications, or water or power utility infrastructure or any private infrastructure necessary to preserve community safety or resilience to a wildfire threat. The term defensible space project — means a project that is conducted within a radius of not more than 100 feet around homes, businesses, and administrative facilities, and is comprised of vegetation pruning, such as annual removal of tree seedlings and saplings, lower limbs of mature trees, cutting of grasses and reducing density and continuity of shrubs, and removal of most small twigs and leaves; or at the discretion of the Administrator, if a project funded under the program is being carried out in a State that has established by law a more restrictive definition of the term, has the meaning given the term in State law. The term distributed energy resource means a technology that, collectively or individually, increases local energy resilience, such as microgrids, batteries, thermal storage, combined heat and power, fuel cells, electric vehicles, demand response, energy efficiency, smart inverters, and geothermal heat pumps. The term eligible entity means— a State or unit of general local or regional government; an Indian Tribe; or a joint powers authority formed by not less than 2 entities described in subparagraph
(A)or (B). The term low-income community means a census tract, as determined by the Administrator based on objective criteria, where a substantial population or percentage of population of low-income individuals reside, an inadequate access to capital exists, or other indication of economic distress exist. The term program means the grant program established under section 3(a). The term severe disaster impacted community means a unit of local government or an Indian Tribe located in an area for which the President declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170 ) during the preceding 5-year period.
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