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Authorizes and guides expanded use of prescribed fire on Federal and other eligible lands by allowing certain hazardous-fuels and wildland fire funds to pay for planning, training, burns, equipment, and partnerships. It creates a competitive Collaborative Prescribed Fire Program, directs workforce development and liability guidance, requires coordinated environmental and air-quality review, and ties some funding eligibility to timely reporting of prescribed-fire accomplishments.
The law sets a cap (up to 15% of specified hazardous-fuels funds per Secretary) for these activities, excludes pile burning from the prescribed-fire definition, requires year-to-year increases in treated acreage, and mandates annual reporting to Congress and to the national fire operations database. It also authorizes cooperative agreements, long-term contracts, and education and research to expand safe, landscape-scale prescribed burning.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced June 10, 2025 by Ronald Lee Wyden · Last progress June 10, 2025