A BILL 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act to allow Indian Tribal Governments 
to directly request fire management assistance declara-
tions and grants, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fire Management As-
sistance Grants for Tribal Governments Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENT ELIGIBILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 420 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5187) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘, Indian 
tribal government,’’ before ‘‘or local government’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (b) through (e) 
as subsections (c) through (f), respectively; 
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) PROCEDURE FOR REQUEST.—The Governor of 
a State or the Chief Executive of an Indian tribal govern-
ment affected by a fire described in subsection (a) may 
directly submit a request to authorize assistance under 
this section.’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Nothing in this section 
shall prohibit an Indian tribal government from receiving 
assistance under this section pursuant to an authorization 
made at the request of a State under subsection (b) if 
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assistance is not authorized under this section for the 
same incident based on a request by the Indian tribal gov-
ernment under subsection (b).’’. 
(b) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE DECLARA-
TION DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘fire 
management assistance declaration’’ means a dec-
laration approved under section 204.21(a) of title 
44, Code of Federal Regulations. 
(2) UPDATE.—Not later than 360 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the President 
shall issue regulations updating part 204 of title 44, 
Code of Federal Regulations, to carry out the 
amendments made by subsection (a). 
(3) CONTENTS.—In issuing the regulations re-
quired under paragraph (2), the President shall— 
(A) authorize the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency to directly receive a request for 
a fire management assistance declaration from 
an Indian Tribal Government and directly pro-
vide related grants and resources to Indian 
Tribal Governments; 
(B) clarify that Indian Tribal Governments 
for which the President does not grant a re-
quest described in subparagraph (A) remain eli-
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gible to receive assistance under section 420 of 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5187) 
through assistance granted under a fire man-
agement assistance declaration made at the re-
quest of a State; 
(C) consider the unique conditions that af-
fect the general welfare of Indian Tribal Gov-
ernments; and 
(D) enter into government-to-government 
consultation with Indian Tribal Governments 
regarding the regulations. 
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Union Calendar No. 668 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9121 
[Report No. 118–817] 
A BILL 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act to allow Indian 
Tribal Governments to directly request fire man-
agement assistance declarations and grants, and 
for other purposes. 
DECEMBER 5, 2024 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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