Sec. 4. Activities of National Wildland Fire Risk Reduction Program
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The Program shall consist of the activities described under section 8, which shall be designed— to support research and development, including interdisciplinary research, related to fire environments, wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts, in furtherance of a coordinated interagency effort to address wildland fire risk reduction; to support data management and stewardship, the development and coordination of data systems and computational tools, and the creation of a centralized, integrated data collaboration environment for Program agency data to accelerate the understanding of fire environments, wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts, and the benefits of wildland fire risk mitigation measures; to support the development of tools and technologies, including decision support tools and risk and hazard maps, to improve understanding, monitoring, and prediction of wildland fires and associated smoke and mitigation of their negative impacts; to support research and development activities to improve data, tools, and technologies that directly inform, support, and complement active land management, forest and habitat restoration, and healthy ecosystem practices executed by relevant Federal agencies and State, local, territorial, and Tribal entities; to support education and training to expand the number of students and researchers in areas of study and research related to wildland fires; to accelerate the translation of research related to wildland fires and associated smoke into operations to reduce harm to communities, buildings, other infrastructure, and ecosystem services; to conduct communication and outreach regarding wildland fire science and wildland fire risk mitigation to communities, energy utilities and operators of other critical infrastructure, and other relevant stakeholders; to support research and development projects funded under joint solicitations or through memoranda of understanding between not fewer than 2 agencies participating in the Program; and to disseminate, to the extent practicable, scientific data and related products and services in formats meeting shared standards to enhance the interoperability, usability, and accessibility of Program agency data, including data under paragraph (2), in order to better meet the needs of Program agencies, other Federal agencies, and relevant stakeholders.