Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Fix Our Forests Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I—Landscape-scale restoration Subtitle A—Addressing emergency wildfire risks in high-priority firesheds Sec. 101. Designation of fireshed management areas. Sec. 102. Wildfire Intelligence Center. Sec. 103. Fireshed Registry. Sec. 104. Shared stewardship. Sec. 105. Fireshed assessments. Sec. 106. Emergency fireshed management.

Sec. 107. Sunset. Subtitle B—Expanding collaborative tools to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health Sec. 111. Modification of treatment of certain revenue and payments under good neighbor agreements. Sec. 112. Fixing stewardship end result contracting. Sec. 113. Fireshed management project strike teams. Sec. 114. Locally led restoration. Sec. 115. Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Program. Sec. 116. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Sec. 117.

Utilizing grazing for wildfire risk reduction. Sec. 118. Water Source Protection Program. Sec. 119. Watershed Condition Framework technical corrections. Sec. 120. Tribal forest protection management activities and projects. Subtitle C—Litigation reform Sec. 121. Commonsense litigation reform. Sec. 122. Consultation on forest plans. Subtitle D—Prescribed fire Sec. 131. Prescribed fire eligible activities, policies, and practices. Sec. 132. Human resources. Sec. 133. Liability of prescribed fire managers.

Sec. 134. Environmental review. Sec. 135. Cooperative agreements and contracts for prescribed fire. Sec. 136. Facilitating responsible use of prescribed fire. TITLE II—Protecting communities in wildland-urban interface Subtitle A—Community wildfire risk reduction Sec. 201. Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Program. Sec. 202. Community Wildfire Defense Research Program. Sec. 203. Community wildfire defense accountability. Sec. 204. Community wildfire defense grant program improvements.

Sec. 205. Updated definition of at-risk community. Subtitle B—Vegetation management, reforestation, and local fire suppression Sec. 211. Vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance relating to electric transmission and distribution facility rights-of-way. Sec. 212. Fire-safe electrical corridors. Sec. 213. Categorical exclusion for high-priority hazard trees. Sec. 214. Seeds of Success strategy. Sec. 215. Program to support priority reforestation and restoration projects.

Sec. 216. Reforestation, nurseries, and genetic resources support. Sec. 217. Fire department repayment. TITLE III—Transparency, technology, and partnerships Subtitle A—Transparency and technology Sec. 301. Biochar innovations and opportunities for conservation, health, and advancements in research. Sec. 302. Accurate hazardous fuels reduction reports. Sec. 303. Public-private wildfire technology deployment and demonstration partnership. Sec. 304. GAO study on Forest Service policies.

Sec. 305. Keeping forest plans current and monitored. Sec. 306. Container Aerial Firefighting System. Sec. 307. Study on pine beetle infestation. Subtitle B—White oak resilience Sec. 311. White Oak Restoration Initiative Coalition. Sec. 312. Forest Service pilot program. Sec. 313. Department of the Interior white oak review and restoration. Sec. 314. White oak regeneration and upland oak habitat. Sec. 315. Tree nursery shortages. Sec. 316. White oak research. Sec. 317. USDA formal initiative.

Sec. 318. Use of authorities. TITLE IV—Ensuring casualty assistance for firefighters Sec. 401. Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program.