Sec. 7. Report on radio communications
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Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall prepare a report relating to insufficient radio frequencies, barriers to interoperability of radio frequencies, and available products and technologies for overcoming barriers to interoperability for wildland fire management. In preparing the report under subsection (a), the Administrator shall cooperate with— the Secretary of Agriculture; agencies responsible for the management of Federal land; State fire and emergency response agencies; and municipal fire departments and volunteer fire departments in relevant communities. The report under subsection
(a)shall include— a determination on whether the organizations identified in the report have an existing ability to communicate by way of radio during a potential fire suppression effort for a large fire; a determination on whether— the reserved radio frequencies are sufficient for wildland fire management; or additional frequencies, listed by type and location, are recommended to be reserved or obtained; an analysis of commercially available technology and products to enable radios from multiple agencies operating on different radio frequencies to be interoperable; and if the Secretary determines under paragraph
(1)that the organizations do not have an existing ability to communicate, a plan for ensuring organizations would be able to communicate adequately during a fire suppression effort for a large fire.