Sec. 104. Large cross-boundary prescribed fire incentive program
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Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall establish an incentive program to encourage the implementation of large, cross-boundary prescribed fires by providing incentive payments for conducting a qualified prescribed fire. A qualified prescribed fire under the program under this section is a prescribed fire that— occurred on not less than 2 parcels of land that were under different ownership; and had a target area identified in a prescribed fire burn plan of not less than 50,000 acres.
The Secretary may consider a series of prescribed fires conducted within 1 fiscal year by the same 1 or more entities to be a qualified prescribed fire under the program under this section if the series of fires collectively meet the criteria under paragraph (1). The Secretary shall make payments to the State and county in which a qualified prescribed fire was implemented in an amount not greater than $100,000. In the case of each qualified prescribed fire on a unit of the National Forest System, the Secretary shall transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, an amount not greater than $100,000, which shall be used for that unit of the National Forest System.
In the case of each qualified prescribed fire on land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, the Secretary shall increase the funding allocation to the agency of the Department of the Interior that manages the land in an amount not greater than $100,000. In the case of each qualified prescribed fire in Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18, United States Code), the Secretary shall make a payment to the applicable Indian Tribe in an amount not greater than $100,000.