Sec. 104. Accounts to assist communities in planning and preparing for wildfires
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There are established in the Treasury of the United States the following accounts: The Community-Supported Land-Use Planning Assistance account for the Department of Agriculture. The Community-Supported Land-Use Planning Assistance account for the Department of the Interior. The following activities shall be specified for funding within each Community-Supported Land-Use Planning Assistance account established by subsection (a): The Firewise Program operated by the National Fire Protection Association.
Community wildfire protection programs. The Fire-Adapted Communities Learning Network. Vegetation management by communities. There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter for the accounts established by subsection
(a)such sums as are necessary to carry out this section, not to exceed $200,000,000. 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 (b). The Secretary concerned shall use amounts in the accounts established by subsection
(a)as follows: With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity described in subsection (b)(1), the Secretary concerned may— cosponsor the Firewise Program; and support the expansion of the Firewise Communities/USA Recognition Program to additional at-risk communities. With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity described in subsection (b)(2), the Secretary concerned may provide assistance to at-risk communities to establish and revise— a community wildfire protection plan (as defined in section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 ( 16 U.S.C. 6511 )); or a community evacuation plan. With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity described in subsection (b)(3), the Secretary concerned shall establish a small grant program to address local hazard reduction on Federal, State, or private land, subject to the conditions that— a grant provided under the program— may be awarded to an organization in an at-risk community to address, in a sole instance, a hazardous fuel in a specific location, including piling and burning, and implementing a prescribed fire on private land; shall not exceed $20,000; and shall require cost-sharing assistance in an amount equal to not less than 10 percent of the amount of the grant; the work identified for funding under the grant shall be accomplished by a team composed of, at a minimum— a private citizen; a representative of a nonprofit organization; and a local fire department, including a volunteer fire department; to be eligible for a grant under the program, a strategic plan outlining the means by which the applicant will address a hazardous fuel shall be submitted to the Secretary concerned; and on completion of a grant project, the grant recipient shall— submit to the Secretary concerned a report; and participate in training another grant recipient during the following fiscal year. With respect to amounts appropriated for the activity described in subsection (b)(4), the Secretary concerned may provide cost-sharing assistance for the establishment and operation of a local program in an at-risk community to assist homeowners in the disposal of brush and slash generated by hazard reduction activities.
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Accounts to assist communities in planning and preparing for wildfires
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