Sec. 103. Fireshed registry
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The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Fireshed Center appointed under section 102, shall maintain a Fireshed Registry on a publicly accessible website that provides interactive geospatial data on individual firesheds, including information on— wildfire exposure delineated by ownership, including rights-of-way for utilities and other public or private purposes; any hazardous fuels management activities that have occurred within an individual fireshed in the past 10 years; wildfire exposure with respect to such fireshed delineated by— wildfire exposure and corresponding risk to communities, including risk to structures and life; wildfire exposure and corresponding risk to municipal watersheds; and risk of forest conversion due to wildfire; the percentage of the fireshed that has burned in wildfires in the past 10 years, including, to the extent practicable, delineations of acres that have burned at a high severity; spatial patterns of wildfire exposure, including plausible extreme fire events; and any hazardous fuels management activities planned for the fireshed, including fireshed management projects under section 106 of this Act.
The Director shall make data from the Fireshed Registry available to local communities developing or updating community wildfire protection plans. As part of the website containing the Fireshed Registry, the Director shall— publish fireshed assessments created under section 105; and maintain a searchable database to track— the status of Federal environmental reviews, permits, and authorizations for specific fireshed management projects conducted under section 106, including— a comprehensive permitting timetable; the status of the compliance of each lead agency, cooperating agency, and participating agency with the permitting timetable with respect to such fireshed management projects; any modifications of the permitting timetable required under clause (i), including an explanation as to why the permitting timetable was modified; and information about project-related public meetings, public hearings, and public comment periods, which shall be presented in English and the predominant language of the community or communities most affected by the project, as that information becomes available; the projected cost of such fireshed management projects; and in the case of fireshed management projects completed pursuant to section 106, the effectiveness of such projects in reducing the wildfire exposure within an applicable fireshed, including wildfire exposure described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(C)of subsection (a)(3).