Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3922 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3922

  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
   study on existing programs, rules, and authorities that enable or 
inhibit wildfire mitigation across land ownership boundaries on Federal 
             and non-Federal land, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2025

 Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mrs. Kim, Mr. Harder of California, and Mr. 
  Obernolte) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Agriculture, 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 direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
   study on existing programs, rules, and authorities that enable or 
inhibit wildfire mitigation across land ownership boundaries on Federal 
             and non-Federal land, 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 ``Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions 
Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDY ON WILDFIRE MITIGATION ACROSS LAND OWNERSHIP BOUNDARIES.

    (a) Study Required.--The Comptroller General of the United States 
shall conduct a study on--
            (1) the existing Federal programs, rules, and authorities 
        that enable or inhibit wildfire mitigation from being completed 
        across land ownership boundaries on Federal and non-Federal 
        land;
            (2) whether changes to any program, rule, or authority 
        identified pursuant to paragraph (1) would allow Federal land 
        management agencies (as defined in section 802 of the Federal 
        Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6801)), the 
        Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the 
        Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Secretary of 
        Homeland Security, acting through the Administrator of the 
        Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Fire 
        Administration, States, local governments, and Tribal 
        governments increased capacity or access to funding to mitigate 
        wildfires; and
            (3) the activities carried out pursuant to subsection (e) 
        of section 103 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 
        (16 U.S.C. 6513), including--
                    (A) how to improve the efficacy of such activities 
                with respect to mitigating wildfire; and
                    (B) whether the enactment of such subsection has 
                increased the access of Federal land management 
                agencies and States to funding to mitigate wildfires.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a 
report that contains--
            (1) the results of the study required under subsection (a); 
        and
            (2) recommendations to simplify cross-boundary wildfire 
        mitigation between Federal land management agencies and State, 
        local, and Tribal governments.
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