This bill, the Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act, directs the Comptroller General to study how existing Federal programs, rules, and authorities help or block wildfire mitigation across federal and nonfederal land ownership boundaries. The study must look at whether changing those programs, rules, or authorities would increase capacity or access to funding for federal land management agencies, the Secretary of Agriculture (through the Natural Resources Conservation Service), the Secretary of Homeland Security (through FEMA), the U.S. Fire Administration, States, local governments, and Tribal governments. The study must also review activities under subsection (e) of section 103 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to see how to improve their effectiveness for wildfire mitigation and whether that subsection increased access to funding. The Comptroller General must report the study results and provide recommendations to simplify cross-boundary wildfire mitigation to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources within two years of enactment.
The bill requires a federal study and a report. It does not itself change programs or provide funding. If the report recommends changes, Congress or agencies could consider those recommendations later. There are no immediate new rules or actions in this text for individuals, landowners, or local governments.
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The bill creates a formal study to identify programs, rules, and authorities that enable or inhibit wildfire mitigation across land ownership boundaries and to recommend ways to simplify coordination and funding access between federal, State, local, and Tribal entities.
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