Sec. 5. Digital fire weather services and data management
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The Under Secretary shall develop and maintain a comprehensive, centralized, and publicly accessible digital presence designed to promote findability, accessibility, interoperability, usability, and utility of the services, tools, data, and information produced by the program established under section 3(a). In carrying out paragraph (1), the Under Secretary shall— seek to ensure the digital platform and tools of the Administration integrate geospatial data, decision support tools, training, and best practices to provide real-time fire weather forecasts and address fire-related issues and needs; and strive to enhance community resilience, ecosystem values, and economic growth and development by helping communities and other users of the digital platform and tools address their issues, needs, and challenges through maximum usability and utility.
The Under Secretary shall make all data, research, reports, findings, surveys, and assessments relevant to the program established under section 3(a), as determined by the Under Secretary, available in a publicly accessible digital format. In carrying out subsections
(a)and (b), the Under Secretary shall develop and implement internet-based tools, such as webpages and smartphone and other mobile applications, to increase utility and access to services and products for the benefit of users. The Under Secretary shall develop and maintain services that provide public access to digital fire weather data and information— to improve understanding and historical analysis of wildfire and fire weather science, including inventories of fire emissions required for multi-decadal model runs; to support— the archiving, stewardship, utility, and preservation of wildfire and fire weather data including satellite-, ground-, airborne-, and air-based observations; and real-time and retrospective model forecasts; to promote findability, interoperability, analysis- and decision-readiness, and reusability of historical and near real-time data across Federal, State, Tribal, and local users, including ensuring digital access and machine-readability of historical fire weather records; and to support equitable access, cross-sectoral collaboration and innovation, and local planning and decision making.