H.R. 3389 – Reading Mode

IIB

118th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 3389

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

September 13, 2023

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

AN ACT

To require the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an evaluation with respect to the use of the container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS), and for other purposes.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2023.

Container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS)

(a)

Evaluation

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, shall jointly conduct an evaluation of the container aerial firefighting system to assess the use of such system to mitigate and suppress wildfires.

(b)

Report

Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees a report that includes the results of the evaluation required under subsection (a).

(c)

Appropriate committees defined

In this section, the term appropriate committees means—

(1)

the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and

(2)

the Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.

Passed the House of Representatives September 12, 2023.

Kevin F. McCumber,

Clerk.