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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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118TH CONGRESS 1 REPT. 118-187
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
EMERGENCY WILDFIRE FIGHTING TECHNOLOGY ACT OF
2023
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3389]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3389) 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 con-
tainer aerial firefighting system (CAFFS), and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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
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