February 6 (legislative day, February 5), 2025
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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.
Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025
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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.