Last progress June 17, 2025 (5 months ago)
Introduced on June 17, 2025 by Young Kim
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
This bill tells the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior to set clear rules for how fast the federal government must respond to wildfires on federal land. Within 90 days of becoming law, they must create a response-time standard. The goal is to evaluate a new wildfire within 30 minutes and to have firefighting resources moving within 3 hours.
Within one year, they must send Congress a report that names a single point of contact for federal wildfire response, gives a unified budget request, and lists key performance measures for the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service. The report must also describe the current and needed firefighting fleet to meet the 30-minute/3-hour targets, changes to speed up dispatch, ways to streamline contracts to under a year, and what’s needed to keep contracted firefighting resources available year-round nationwide.