Wildfire Disaster Funding Act
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require specified adjustments to discretionary spending limits in FY2015-FY2022 to accommodate appropriations for wildfire suppression operations in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the Department of the Interior.
If USDA or Interior determines that supplemental appropriations are necessary for wildfire suppression operations, the bill requires the relevant department to submit to Congress a request for the funding and a plan for obligating the funds.
The bill also requires the President's budget to include the average costs for wildfire suppression over the previous 10 years.
[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 167 Introduced in House (IH)]
114th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 167
To provide for adjustments to discretionary spending under section
251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 to support wildfire suppression operations, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 6, 2015
Mr. Simpson (for himself and Mr. Schrader) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in
addition to the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources, 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
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A BILL
To provide for adjustments to discretionary spending under section
251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 to support wildfire suppression operations, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Wildfire Disaster Funding Act''.
SEC. 2. WILDFIRE DISASTER FUNDING AUTHORITY.
(a) Adjustments to Discretionary Spending Limits.--Section
251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(E) Flame wildfire suppression.--(i) If a bill or
joint resolution making appropriations for a fiscal
year is enacted that specifies an amount for wildfire
suppression operations in the Wildland Fire Management
accounts at the Department of Agriculture or the
Department of the Interior, then the adjustments for
that fiscal year shall be the amount of additional new
budget authority provided in that Act for wildfire
suppression operations for that fiscal year, but shall
not exceed $2,689,000,000 in additional new budget
authority in each of fiscal years 2015 through 2022.
``(ii) If the Secretary of the Interior or the
Secretary of Agriculture determines that supplemental
appropriations are necessary for a fiscal year for
wildfire suppression operations, such Secretary shall
promptly submit to Congress--
``(I) a request for such supplemental
appropriations; and
``(II) a plan detailing the manner in which
such Secretary intends to obligate the
supplemental appropriations within 30 days
after the date on which such supplemental
appropriations are made available.
``(iii) The average costs for wildfire suppression
operations over the previous 10 years shall be
calculated annually and reported in the President's
budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, for each fiscal year.
``(iv) As used in this subparagraph--
``(I) the term `additional new budget
authority' means the amount provided for a
fiscal year, in excess of 70 percent of the
average costs for wildfire suppression
operations over the previous 10 years, in an
appropriation Act and specified to pay for the
costs of wildfire suppression operations; and
``(II) the term `wildfire suppression
operations' means the emergency and
unpredictable aspects of wildland firefighting
including support, response, and emergency
stabilization activities, other emergency
management activities, and funds necessary to
repay any transfers needed for these costs.''.
(b) Disaster Funding.--Section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(D)) is
amended--
(1) in clause (i)--
(A) in subclause (I), by striking ``and'' and
inserting ``plus'';
(B) in subclause (II), by striking the period and
inserting ``; less''; and
(C) by adding the following:
``(III) the additional new budget
authority provided in an appropriation
Act for wildfire suppression operations
pursuant to subparagraph (E) for the
preceding fiscal year.''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(v) Beginning in fiscal year 2017 and in
subsequent fiscal years, the calculation of the
`average funding provided for disaster relief
over the previous 10 years' under clause (i)(I)
shall include any additional new budget
authority provided in an appropriation Act for
wildfire suppression operations pursuant to
subparagraph (E).''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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.
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
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