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House Bill 3389
118th Congress(2023-2024)
Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2023
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Passed House on Sep 12, 2023
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3389

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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SEC. 1. Short title.

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

SEC. 2. 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.

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Clerk.  

118th CONGRESS
     1st Session
H. R. 3389
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.