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within the design and construction industry, includ-
ing architects, engineers, contractors, builders, plan-
ners, code officials, and inspectors; 
(3) establish and operate a wildland fire pre-
paredness and mitigation technical assistance pro-
gram to assist State, local, Tribal and territorial 
governments in using wildland fire mitigation strate-
gies, including through the adoption and implemen-
tation of wildland and wildland-urban interface fire 
resistant codes, standards, and land use; 
(4) incorporate wildland and wildland-urban 
interface fire risk mitigation and loss avoidance data 
into the Agency’s existing risk, mitigation, and loss 
avoidance analyses; 
(5) incorporate data on the adoption and imple-
mentation of wildland and wildland-urban interface 
fire resistant codes and standards into the Agency’s 
hazard resistant code tracking resources; 
(6) translate new information and research 
findings into best practices to improve firefighter, 
fire service, and allied professions training and edu-
cation in wildland fire response, crew deployment, 
prevention, mitigation, resilience, and firefighting; 
(7) conduct outreach and information dissemi-
nation to fire departments regarding best practices
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for wildland and wildland-urban interface fire-
fighting, training, and fireground deployment; 
(8) in collaboration with other relevant Pro-
gram agencies and stakeholders, develop a national 
level, interactive and publicly accessible wildland fire 
hazard severity map that includes community and 
parcel level data and that can readily integrate with 
risk gradations within wildland and wildland-urban 
interface fire resistant codes and standards; 
(9) in coordination with the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology and other Federal ini-
tiatives as appropriate, carry out a study to— 
(A) examine PFAS and other potentially 
harmful contaminants in firefighting gear, fire 
retardants, and wetting agents; 
(B) determine the lifecycle of firefighting 
garments; and 
(C) evaluate exposure risks based on dif-
ferent phases of the fire; and 
(10) develop resources regarding best practices 
for establishing or enhancing peer-support programs 
within wildland fire firefighting units. 
(e) NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINIS-
TRATION.—The responsibilities of the Administrator of 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (in
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this subsection referred to as the ‘‘Administrator’’) with 
respect to the Program are as follows: 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator shall, 
with respect to the Program— 
(A) support relevant basic and applied sci-
entific research and modeling; 
(B) ensure the use in the Program of all 
relevant National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration Earth observations data for max-
imum utility; 
(C) explore and apply novel tools and tech-
nologies in the activities of the Program; 
(D) support the translation of research to 
operations, including to Program agencies and 
relevant stakeholders; 
(E) 
facilitate 
the 
communication 
of 
wildland fire research, knowledge, and tools to 
relevant stakeholders; and 
(F) use commercial data where such data 
is available and accessible through existing Fed-
eral government commercial contracts, agree-
ments, or other means, and purchase data that 
is deemed necessary based on consultation with 
other Program agencies.
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(2) WILDLAND FIRE RESEARCH AND APPLICA-
TIONS.—The Administrator shall support basic and 
applied wildland fire research and modeling activi-
ties, including competitively-selected research, to— 
(A) improve the understanding and pre-
diction of fire environments, wildland fires, as-
sociated smoke, and their impacts; 
(B) improve the understanding of the im-
pacts of climate change and variability on 
wildland fire risk, frequency, and severity; 
(C) characterize the pre-fire phase and 
fire-inducing conditions, such as soil moisture 
and vegetative fuel availability; 
(D) characterize the active fire phase, such 
as fire and smoke plume mapping, fire behavior 
and spread modeling, and domestic and global 
fire activity; 
(E) characterize the post-fire phase, such 
as landscape changes, air quality, erosion, land-
slides, and impacts on carbon distributions in 
forest biomass; 
(F) contribute to advancing predictive 
wildland fire models; 
(G) address other relevant investigations 
and measurements prioritized by the National
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Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medi-
cine Decadal Survey on Earth Science and Ap-
plications from Space; 
(H) improve the translation of research 
knowledge into actionable information; 
(I) develop research and data products, in-
cluding maps, decision-support information, and 
tools, and support related training as appro-
priate and practicable; 
(J) collaborate with other Program agen-
cies and relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, 
on joint research and development projects, in-
cluding research grant solicitations and field 
campaigns; and 
(K) transition research advances to oper-
ations, including to Program agencies and rel-
evant stakeholders, as practicable. 
(3) WILDLAND FIRE DATA SYSTEMS AND COM-
PUTATIONAL TOOLS.—The Administrator shall— 
(A) identify, from the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration’s Earth 
science data systems, data, including combined 
data products and relevant commercial data 
sets, that can contribute to improving the un-
derstanding, monitoring, prediction, and mitiga-
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tion of wildland fires and their impacts, includ-
ing data related to fire weather, plume dynam-
ics, smoke and fire behavior, impacts of climate 
change and variability, land and property 
burned, wildlife and ecosystem destruction, 
among other areas; 
(B) prioritize the dissemination of data 
identified or obtained under this subparagraph 
to the widest extent practicable to support rel-
evant research and operational stakeholders; 
(C) consider opportunities to support the 
Program under section 301 and the Program 
activities under section 302 when planning and 
developing Earth observation satellites, instru-
ments, and airborne measurement platforms; 
(D) identify opportunities, in collaboration 
with Program agencies and relevant stake-
holders, to obtain additional airborne and 
space-based data and observations that may en-
hance or supplement the understanding, moni-
toring, prediction, and mitigation of wildland 
fire risks, and the relevant Program activities 
under section 302, and consider such options as 
commercial solutions, including commercial 
data purchases, prize authority, academic part-