Sec. 101. Designation of fireshed management areas
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Subject to paragraph (4), for the 5-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the following firesheds are designated as fireshed management areas: Each landscape-scale fireshed identified as a high-risk fireshed in the document published by the Forest Service entitled Wildfire Crisis Strategy and dated January 2022. Of the 7,688 firesheds described in the report published by the Rocky Mountain Research Station of the Forest Service in 2019, each landscape-scale fireshed identified by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, as being in the top 20 percent for wildfire exposure based on the following criteria:
Wildfire exposure and corresponding risk to communities, including risk to life, critical infrastructure, and other structures. Wildfire exposure and corresponding risk to municipal watersheds, including Tribal water supplies and systems. Risk of vegetation type conversion due to wildfire, based on information from existing forest plans, State forest action plans, and best available science. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall designate in the States of Alaska and Hawaii and the territories of the United States such additional fireshed management areas as the Secretaries determine to be appropriate, based on the criteria described in clauses
(i)through
(iii)of paragraph (1)(B). Not later than the date that is 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than once every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall submit to the relevant committees of Congress an updated map of firesheds, which shall— be based on the Fireshed Registry; and include firesheds in the States of Alaska and Hawaii and the territories of the United States. Not later than 60 days after submitting an updated fireshed map under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall designate as a fireshed management area each fireshed depicted on that map that the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, identifies as being in the top 20 percent of firesheds at risk of wildfire exposure based on the criteria described in clauses
(i)through
(iii)of paragraph (1)(B) and in accordance with this section. The Secretary shall make each updated map prepared under this paragraph publicly available on the Fireshed Registry. A fireshed management area designated under this subsection— shall not overlap with any other fireshed management area; and may contain Federal and non-Federal land, including Indian forest land or rangeland. On receipt of a request of an affected Governor, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, may expand a fireshed management area designated under this subsection to include more than 1 fireshed. The Secretary concerned may carry out fireshed management projects on the fireshed management areas designated under this section. The designation of a fireshed management area under this section shall not be subject to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ).
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