119-s2033

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2033 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2033

 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.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 11, 2025

 Mr. Gallego introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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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.

 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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