Sec. 102. Policies and practices
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The Secretaries shall significantly increase the number and size of prescribed fires conducted on Federal land. From amounts appropriated to carry out the activity described in section 101(e)(1), the Secretaries may carry out prescribed fires on not more than 20,000,000 acres of Federal land per year. Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretaries shall carry out prescribed fires annually on at least 1,000,000 acres of Federal land. Subject to the availability of appropriations, not later than September 30, 2022, the Secretaries shall each have carried out a minimum of 1 prescribed fire on each unit of the National Forest System, unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, unit of the National Park System, and Bureau of Land Management district under the jurisdiction of the Secretaries— that includes an area that— has a historical low-severity fire regime; has a historical fire-return interval of not more than 35 years; and is larger than 100 acres; and less than 50 percent of the land of which was burned by a wildland fire during the previous 10-year period.