Sec. 5. Interagency Coordinating Committee on Wildland Fire Risk Reduction
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall establish an interagency coordinating committee for the Program. The interagency coordinating committee established under paragraph
(1)shall known as the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Wildland Fire Risk Reduction (in this section the Committee ). The Committee shall be composed of the following, or their designees: The Director. The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Director of the National Science Foundation. The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration. The Chief of the Forest Service. The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Secretary of Energy. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Secretary of the Interior. The Director of United States Geological Survey. The Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The head of any other Federal agency that the Director considers appropriate. The members of the Committee shall meet not less than twice each year for the first 2 years of the Committee and then not less frequently than once each year thereafter at the call of the Director. The Director and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy or their designees shall be co-chairpersons of the Committee. The Committee shall oversee the planning, management, and coordination of the Program and solicit stakeholder input on Program goals. The Committee shall develop and submit to Congress, not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, a strategic plan for the Program. The strategic plan developed and submitted under paragraph
(1)shall include the following: Prioritized goals for the Program, consistent with the purposes of the Program as described in section 3(a). Short-term, mid-term, and long-term research and development objectives to achieve those goals. A description of the role of each Program agency in achieving the prioritized goals. A description of how the Committee will foster collaboration between and among the Program agencies and other Federal agencies to help meet the goals of the Program. The methods by which progress toward the goals will be assessed. An explanation of how the Program will foster the translation of research into measurable reductions in the losses of life, property, and ecosystem services from wildland fires, including recommended outcomes and metrics for each program goal and how operational Program agencies will transition demonstrated technologies and research findings into decision support tools and operations. A description of the research infrastructure, including databases and computational tools, needed to accomplish the research and development objectives outlined in subparagraph (B), a description of how research infrastructure in existence at the time of the development of the plan will be used to meet the objectives, an explanation of how new research infrastructure will be developed to meet the objectives, and a description of how the Program will implement the integrated data collaboration environment per section 4(2). A description of how Program agencies will collaborate with stakeholders and take into account stakeholder needs and recommendations in developing research and development objectives. Recommendations on the most effective means to integrate the research results into wildland fire preparedness and response actions across Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial levels. Guidance on how the Committee’s recommendations are best used in climate adaptation planning for Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial entities. A nationally recognized, consensus-based definition of wildland-urban interface and other key terms and definitions relating to wildland fire, developed in consideration of the meaning given such term in section 4 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 ( 15 U.S.C. 2203 ). A description of opportunities to support new areas of research and development and new types of collaborations that seek to optimize building and landscape design across multiple resilience goals, including resilience to wildland fires and other natural hazards, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Not later than 6 years after the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once every 4 years thereafter, the Committee shall update the strategic plan developed under paragraph (1). To the extent practicable, the Committee shall ensure that the activities of the Program are coordinated with, and not duplicative of, other relevant Federal initiatives and interagency bodies, as appropriate, including— the Joint Fire Science Program; the Wildland Fire Leadership Council; 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 Windstorm Impact Reduction Program; the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group; and the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group. The Committee shall assess— the need for a study, or a series of studies, to be conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and how such a study or studies could help identify research areas for further study and inform research objectives, including further research into the interactions between climate change and wildland fires. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Committee shall brief the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Space, Science, and Technology of the House of Representatives and on the findings of the Committee with respect to the assessment conducted under paragraph (1). Not later than 540 days after the date of the submittal of the first strategic plan under subsection
(f)and not less frequently than once every 2 years thereafter, the Committee shall submit to Congress a report on the progress of the Program. Each report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall include, for the period covered by the report, the following: A description of the activities funded under the Program, a description of how those activities align with the prioritized goals and research objectives established in the strategic plan under subsection (f), and the budgets, per agency, for these activities. The outcomes achieved by the Program for each of the goals identified in the Strategic Plan.
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Interagency Coordinating Committee on Wildland Fire Risk Reduction
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