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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 8790 (Engrossed in House) — To expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and improve forest management activities on National... · Sec. 202

Sec. 202. Community wildfire defense research program

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The Secretaries shall, acting jointly, expand the Joint Fire Science Program to include a performance-driven research and development program known as the Community Wildfire Defense Research Program for the purpose of testing and advancing innovative designs to create or improve the wildfire-resistance of structures and communities. In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Secretaries shall evaluate opportunities to create wildfire-resistant structures and communities through— different affordable building materials, including mass timber; home hardening, including policies to incentivize and incorporate defensible space; subdivision design and other land use planning and design; landscape architecture; and other wildfire-resistant designs, as determined by the Secretary.
In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Secretaries shall carry out a competition through which a person may submit to the Secretaries innovative designs for the creation or improvement of an ignition-resistant structure or fire-adapted communities. Subject to the availability of appropriations made in advance for such purpose, the Secretaries may award a prize under the competition described in paragraph (1), based on criteria established by the Secretaries and in accordance with paragraph (3).
In awarding a prize under paragraph (2), the Secretaries shall prioritize for an award designs with the most potential to scale to existing infrastructure. In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Secretaries shall ensure collaboration and nonduplication of activities with the Building Technologies Office of the Department of Energy. The program established under subsection
(a)shall terminate on the date that is 7 years after the date of enactment of this Act.
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