Sec. 101. Firefighting accounts
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There are established in the Treasury of the United States the following accounts: The Firefighting Operations account for the Department of Agriculture. The Firefighting Operations account for the Department of the Interior. The following activities shall be specified for funding within each Firefighting Operations account established by subsection (a): Ground-based firefighting operations. Aircraft use in firefighting operations. There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter to the account established by subsection (a)(1) not more than $3,000,000,000 for ground-based firefighting operations.
There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter to the account established by subsection (a)(2) not more than $1,000,000,000 for ground-based firefighting operations. There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter to the accounts established by subsection (a), a total amount of not more than $500,000,000 for aircraft use in firefighting operations. For fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, each Secretary concerned shall submit through the budget request of the President and in accordance with subsection (c), a request for amounts in the Wildland Fire Management appropriation account of the Secretary concerned to carry out the activities described in subsection (e).
The Secretaries shall use amounts provided to the respective accounts established under subsection
(a)as follows: The Secretary of Agriculture shall use amounts appropriated under subsection (c)(1)(A) to carry out management activities for active wildfires through the Forest Service, except that none of the amounts may be used for the operation of aircraft. The Secretary of the Interior shall use amounts appropriated under subsection (c)(1)(B) to carry out management activities for active wildfires, except that none of the amounts may be used for the operation of aircraft. The Secretary concerned shall use amounts appropriated under subsection (c)(2) to acquire, by contract or purchase, and use aircraft, including unmanned aerial systems, for operations relating to wildland fires. The Secretary concerned shall not use to carry out any activity authorized by paragraph (1)(C) amounts appropriated to accounts of the Secretary concerned other than amounts in the accounts established by subsection
(a)specified for activities described in subsection (b)(2). Each Secretary concerned shall submit to the congressional committees monthly accounting reports regarding the amounts that have been obligated and expended under this section during the preceding month of the applicable fiscal year. Each report under paragraph
(1)shall include a description of, with respect to the period covered by the report— Federal ground-based equipment costs; Federal aircraft use costs; Federal personnel costs; on-incident and off-incident support costs; and funding allocated from the Wildland Fire Management account of the Secretary concerned to pay for administrative costs. Each report under paragraph
(1)shall be prepared in accordance with applicable national fire plan reporting procedures.