Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term Director means the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The term fire environment means— the environmental conditions, such as soil moisture, vegetation, topography, snowpack, atmospheric temperature, moisture, and wind, that influence— fuel and fire behavior; and smoke dispersion and transport; and the associated environmental impacts occurring during and after fire events. The term fireground means the operational area at the scene of a fire controlled by an incident command system.
The term fire weather means any type of weather conditions that influence the start, spread, character, or behavior of wildfire or fires at the wildland-urban interface and all associated meteorological and chemical phenomena, including air quality, smoke, and meteorological parameters such as relative humidity, air temperature, wind speed and direction, and atmospheric composition and chemistry, including emissions and mixing heights. The term National Laboratory has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 15801 ).
The term Program means the National Wildland Fire Risk Reduction Program established under section 3. The term Program agencies means any Federal agency with responsibilities under the Program. The term stakeholders means any public or private organization engaged in addressing wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts, including relevant Federal agencies, States, territories, Tribes, local governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations (including national standards and building code organizations), firefighting departments and organizations, institutions of higher education, National Laboratories, scientific disciplinary societies, professional associations, and other users of wildland fire data products.
The term wildland fire means any nonstructure fire that occurs in vegetation or natural fuels and includes wildfires originating from an unplanned ignition and prescribed fires. The term Wildland-Urban Interface has the meaning given such term in section 4 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 ( 15 U.S.C. 2203 ).
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