Sec. 134. Environmental review
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The Secretaries shall ensure that policies, training, and programs of the Secretaries are consistent with this subsection— to facilitate greater use of prescribed fire in a safe and responsible manner, with appropriate monitoring to prevent prescribed fires from exceeding containment; and to address public health and safety, including impacts from smoke from wildfires and prescribed fires. To facilitate the use of prescribed fire on Federal, State, Tribal, and private land, the Executive Director, in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal and State land management agencies, shall coordinate with State, Tribal, and local air quality agencies that regulate smoke under the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. )— to the maximum extent practicable, to provide State, Tribal, and local air quality agencies with guidance, data, imagery, or modeling to support the development of exceptional event demonstrations in accordance with sections 50.14 and 51.930 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations); to develop archives and automated tools to provide State, Tribal, and local air quality agencies with the data, imagery, and modeling under subparagraph (A); to provide technical assistance, best practices, or templates to States, Indian Tribes, and local governments for the use of the State, Indian Tribe, or local government in approving the use of prescribed fire under a State, Tribal, or local government smoke management program; to promote basic smoke management practices and other best practices to protect the public from wildfire smoke; to disseminate information about basic smoke management practices; to educate landowners that use prescribed fire about the importance of— using basic smoke management practices; and including basic smoke management practices as a component of a prescribed fire plan; and to share with the public information, in coordination with other public health agencies, about measures that individuals can take to protect themselves from wildfire smoke; and to develop guidance and tools to streamline the demonstration of a clear causal relationship between prescribed fire smoke and a related exceedance of a national ambient air quality standard.
To address the public health and safety risk of the expanded use of prescribed fire under this subtitle, the Secretaries, in coordination with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall conduct research to improve or develop— wildfire smoke prediction models; smoke impact display tools for the public and decisionmakers; appropriate, cost-effective, and consistent strategies to mitigate the impacts of smoke from prescribed fire on nearby communities; consistent nationally and scientifically supported messages regarding personal protection equipment for the public; and prescribed fire activity tracking and emission inventory systems for planning and post-treatment accountability.
The Secretary concerned, with respect to units of the National Forest System and Bureau of Land Management districts with existing prescribed fire programs— not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, shall determine which of those units or districts have landscape-scale prescribed fire plans; not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, shall— determine whether each plan described in subparagraph
(A)requires revision; and establish a schedule for the revision of each plan described in subparagraph
(A)that requires revision; and may develop landscape-scale prescribed fire plans for any units or districts that do not have landscape-scale prescribed fire plans, as determined appropriate by the Secretary concerned. In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned shall— comply with— the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ); the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. ); division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code; and any other applicable laws; and consider the site-specific environmental consequences of the landscape-scale prescribed fire decisions under this subsection. In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned shall collaborate with diverse actors from academia, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management research and development offices, nongovernmental organizations, cultural fire practitioners, and other entities, as determined appropriate by the Secretary concerned. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary concerned shall submit to Congress a report describing the progress of the Secretary concerned in carrying out this subsection.
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