Sec. 103. Strategic wildland fire management planning
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Not later than September 30, 2026, the Secretary concerned shall, in accordance with this section, establish a series of spatial fire management plans. To comply with this section, the Secretary concerned may use a fire management plan in existence on the date of enactment of this Act. To be valid, a spatial fire management plan established under this section shall not be in use for longer than the 10-year period beginning on the date on which the plan is established. The Secretary concerned shall establish a spatial fire management plan for each unit of Federal land with more than 10 acres of burnable vegetation under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned.
For each spatial fire management plan established under this section, the Secretary concerned shall— base the plans on a landscape-scale risk assessment that includes— risks to firefighters; risks to communities; risks to highly valuable resources; and other relevant considerations determined by the Secretary concerned; include direction, represented in spatial form, from land management plans and resource management plans; in coordination with States, delineate potential wildland fire operational delineations that— identify potential control locations; and specify the places in which firefighters will not be sent because of the presence of unacceptable risk, including areas determined by the Secretary concerned as— exceeding a certain slope; containing too high of a volume of hazardous fuels, under certain weather conditions; or containing other known hazards; include a determination of average severe fire weather for the plan area; include prefire planning provisions; include a plan for postfire activities that— would better enable a Burned Area Emergency Response Team working on a large fire incident to address emergency stabilization and erosion quickly; and specifies ways in which the Burned Area Emergency Response Team would seek to prevent the proliferation of invasive species in working on the large fire incident; and include, at a minimum, any other requirement determined to be necessary by the Secretary concerned.
The spatial fire management plans established under this section shall be consistent with the fire management objectives and land management objectives in the applicable land management plan or resource management plan. A revision to a land management plan or resource management plan shall consider fire ecology and fire management in a manner that facilitates the issuance of direction for an incident response. A supervisory employee of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture that is funded through a Firefighting Operations account established under section 101 shall participate directly in the creation or revision of an applicable land management plan or resource management plan to incorporate an assessment, protocol, or plan developed under this Act into the planning process.