Sec. 105. Wildland fire performance metrics
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Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall submit to the committees of Congress described in subsection
(c)a report on existing key performance indicators and potential outcome-based performance measures to reduce wildfire risk on Federal land. The report submitted under subsection
(a)shall identify solutions to track the implementation and effectiveness of hazardous fuels reduction activities and forest restoration treatments, including strategies— to track whether land management activities are reducing wildfire hazards and ways to quantify and track acres in maintenance status; to track place-based and locally led outcomes; to standardize national-level monitoring measures; to quantify catastrophic wildfire risk reduction; to identify modeling and data challenges that are preventing the transition to annual wildfire risk mapping updates; and to integrate advanced technologies or a combination of technologies and analyses that will benefit the quality of information reported. The committees of Congress referred to in subsection
(a)are— the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate; the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives.