Sec. 3. Establishment of National Wildland Fire Risk Reduction Program
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The President shall establish a program to achieve major measurable reductions in the losses of life, property, and natural resources from wildland fires through a coordinated Federal effort— to improve the assessment of fire environments and the understanding and prediction of wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts, including— at the wildland-urban interface; on communities, buildings, and other infrastructure; on ecosystem services and watersheds; and social and economic impacts; to develop and encourage the adoption of science-based and cost-effective measures to enhance community resilience to wildland fires, to address and mitigate wildland fire and associated smoke impacts, and to restore natural fire regimes in fire-dependent ecosystems; and to improve the understanding and mitigation of the effects of climate change, drought, and climate variability on wildland fire risk, frequency, and severity, and to inform paragraphs
(1)and (2). The program established under subsection
(a)shall be known as the National Wildland Fire Risk Reduction Program .