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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 5118 (Received in Senate) — To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to prioritize the completion of the Continen... · Sec. 209

Sec. 209. Strategic wildland fire management planning for prescribed fire

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Not later than September 30, 2024, the Secretary concerned shall, in accordance with this section, establish a spatial fire management plan for any prescribed fire. To comply with this section, the Secretary concerned may use a fire management plan in existence on the date of enactment of this Act, and information from the Wildland Fire Decision Support System and the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System. To be valid, a spatial fire management plan established under this section shall not be in use for longer than the 10-year period beginning on the date on which the plan is established.
For each spatial fire management plan established under this section, the Secretary concerned shall— base the plans on a landscape-scale risk assessment that includes— risks to firefighters; risks to communities; risks to highly valuable resources; and other relevant considerations determined by the Secretary concerned; include direction, represented in spatial form, from land management plans and resource management plans; in coordination with States, delineate potential operational delineations that— identify potential prescribed fire or wildfire control locations; and specify the places in which firefighters will not be sent because of the presence of unacceptable risk, including areas determined by the Secretary concerned as— exceeding a certain slope; containing too high of a volume of hazardous fuels, under certain weather conditions; or containing other known hazards; include a determination of average severe fire weather for the plan area; include prefire planning provisions; include a plan for emergency wildfire suppression activities; and include, at a minimum, any other requirement determined to be necessary by the Secretary concerned.
The spatial fire management plans established under this section shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be consistent with the fire management objectives and land management objectives in the applicable land management plan or resource management plan. A revision to a land management plan or resource management plan shall consider fire ecology and fire management in a manner that facilitates the issuance of direction for an incident response.
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