Sec. 103. Transparency in hazardous fuels reduction activity reporting
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The Secretary concerned shall include in the materials submitted in support of the President’s budget pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a report describing— for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2030, the number of acres of Federal land on which the Secretary concerned carried out hazardous fuels reduction activities during each of the preceding 6 fiscal years, as assessed by the Secretary concerned using— the methodology of the Secretary concerned in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act; and the methodology described in paragraph (2); and for fiscal year 2031 and each fiscal year thereafter, the number of acres of Federal land on which the Secretary concerned carried out hazardous fuels reduction activities during each of the preceding 6 fiscal years, as assessed by the Secretary concerned using the methodology described in paragraph (2).
For purposes of the reports required under paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned shall— in determining the number of acres of Federal land on which the Secretary concerned carried out hazardous fuels reduction activities during each fiscal year covered by the report— record acres of Federal land on which hazardous fuels reduction activities were completed during each such fiscal year; and record each acre described in clause
(i)once in the report with respect to a fiscal year, regardless of whether multiple hazardous fuels reduction activities were carried out on such acre during such fiscal year; and with respect to the acres of Federal land recorded in the report, include information on— which such acres are located in the wildland-urban interface; the level of wildfire risk (high, moderate, or low) on the first and last day of each fiscal year covered by the report; the types of hazardous fuels reduction activities completed for such acres, delineating between whether such activities were conducted— in a wildfire managed for resource benefits; or through a planned project; the cost per acre of hazardous fuels reduction activities carried out during each fiscal year covered by the report; the region or System unit in which the acres are located; and the effectiveness of the hazardous fuels reduction activities on reducing the risk of wildfire. The Secretary concerned shall make each report submitted under paragraph
(1)publicly available on the website of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, as applicable. Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall implement standardized procedures for tracking data relating to hazardous fuels reduction activities carried out by the Secretary concerned. The standardized procedures required under paragraph
(1)shall include— regular, standardized data reviews of the accuracy and timely input of data used to track hazardous fuels reduction activities; verification methods that validate whether such data accurately correlates to the hazardous fuels reduction activities carried out by the Secretary concerned; an analysis of the short- and long-term effectiveness of the hazardous fuels reduction activities on reducing the risk of wildfire; and for hazardous fuels reduction activities that occur partially within the wildland-urban interface, methods to distinguish which acres are located within the wildland-urban interface and which acres are located outside the wildland-urban interface. Not later than 14 days after implementing the standardized procedures required under paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned shall submit to Congress a report that describes— such standardized procedures; and program and policy recommendations to Congress to address any limitations in tracking data relating to hazardous fuels reduction activities under this subsection.