Sec. 13. Government Accountability Office report on interagency wildfire forecasting, prevention, planning, and management bodies
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report that— identifies all Federal interagency bodies established for the purpose of wildfire forecasting, prevention, planning, and management (such as wildfire councils, commissions, and workgroups), including— the Wildland Fire Leadership Council; the National Interagency Fire Center; the Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee; the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission; the National Interagency Fire Center; the National Interagency Coordination Center; the National Predictive Services Oversight Group; the Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services; the National Wildfire Coordinating Group; the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group; and the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group; evaluates the roles, functionality, and utility of such interagency bodies; evaluates the progress, performance, and implementation of such interagency bodies; assesses efficacy and identifies potential overlap and duplication of such interagency bodies in carrying out interagency collaboration with respect to wildfire prevention, planning, and management; and includes such other recommendations as the Comptroller General determines are appropriate to streamline and improve wildfire forecasting, prevention, planning, and management, including recommendations regarding the interagency bodies for which the addition of the Administration is necessary to improve wildfire forecasting, prevention, planning, and management.