Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The term Chief means the Chief of the Forest Service. The term community protection and wildfire resilience plan means a plan that— is developed by an eligible entity in coordination with— the local community and government; local Indian Tribes; local law enforcement, firefighters, first responders, fire managers, and utilities; non-governmental organizations carrying out relevant projects or relevant operations locally; and State agencies responsible for— fire prevention and emergency response; other emergency response; public safety; environmental protection; and forest management. includes strategies and activities relating to— improving early detection technology, public outreach and education, alerts and warnings, evacuation planning, evacuation execution, and access for first responders; addressing vulnerable populations, including the elderly, children, individuals with disabilities, and homeless individuals; hardening and increasing the resiliency of critical infrastructure and homes, including through incentive programs; applying community-scale defensible space projects, developed collaboratively with the entities described in clauses
(i)through
(iii)of subparagraph (A), across contiguous areas; building local capacity to implement and oversee the plan; implementing strategic land use planning; educating community members about ways to improve community resilience; coordinating any existing wildfire plans, such as a community wildfire protection plan or a community emergency evacuation plan; and incorporating information from a map generated pursuant to section 210(a) of division O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 ( 16 U.S.C. 6501 note; Public Law 115–141 ); and may consist of existing plans or other efforts, provided that any such plan complies with subparagraphs
(A)and (B). The term critical infrastructure means any public safety, health, education, transportation, communications, or water or power utility infrastructure or any private infrastructure necessary to preserve community safety, resilience, or continuity of operation of such infrastructure with respect to a wildfire threat. The term defensible space project — means a project that is conducted within a radius of not more than 100 feet around a home, business, or administrative facility, and is comprised of vegetation pruning, such as annual removal of tree seedlings and saplings, lower limbs of mature trees, cutting of grasses and reducing density and continuity of shrubs, and removal of most small twigs and leaves; or at the discretion of the Administrator, if a project funded under the program is being carried out in a State that has established, by law, a more restrictive definition of the term, has the meaning given the term in State law. The term eligible entity means— a State; an Indian Tribe; a unit of general local or regional government, including a fire protection district or a municipal fire department; a volunteer fire department; or a collaborative effort of not less than 2 entities described in subparagraphs
(A)through (D). The term program means the grant program established under section 3(a). The term State means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
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