SEC. 2. WILDFIRE DISASTER FUNDING AUTHORITY. 
(a) ADJUSTMENTS
TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING 
LIMITS.—Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
901(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) FLAME WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION.—(i) 
If a bill or joint resolution making appropria-
tions for a fiscal year is enacted that specifies 
an amount for wildfire suppression operations 
in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at 
the Department of Agriculture or the Depart-
ment of the Interior, then the adjustments for 
that fiscal year shall be the amount of addi-
tional new budget authority provided in that 
Act for wildfire suppression operations for that 
fiscal year, but shall not exceed $2,689,000,000 
in additional new budget authority in each of 
fiscal years 2015 through 2022. 
‘‘(ii) If the Secretary of the Interior or the 
Secretary of Agriculture determines that sup-
plemental appropriations are necessary for a 
fiscal year for wildfire suppression operations, 
such Secretary shall promptly submit to Con-
gress— 
‘‘(I) a request for such supplemental 
appropriations; and 
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‘‘(II) a plan detailing the manner in 
which such Secretary intends to obligate 
the supplemental appropriations within 30 
days after the date on which such supple-
mental appropriations are made available. 
‘‘(iii) The average costs for wildfire sup-
pression operations over the previous 10 years 
shall be calculated annually and reported in the 
President’s budget submission under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for 
each fiscal year. 
‘‘(iv) As used in this subparagraph— 
‘‘(I) the term ‘additional new budget 
authority’ means the amount provided for 
a fiscal year, in excess of 70 percent of the 
average costs for wildfire suppression oper-
ations over the previous 10 years, in an 
appropriation Act and specified to pay for 
the costs of wildfire suppression oper-
ations; and 
‘‘(II) the term ‘wildfire suppression 
operations’ means the emergency and un-
predictable aspects of wildland firefighting 
including support, response, and emer-
gency stabilization activities, other emer-
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gency management activities, and funds 
necessary to repay any transfers needed 
for these costs.’’. 
(b) DISASTER FUNDING.—Section 251(b)(2)(D) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(D)) is amended— 
(1) in clause (i)— 
(A) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘and’’ and 
inserting ‘‘plus’’; 
(B) in subclause (II), by striking the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘; less’’; and 
(C) by adding the following: 
‘‘(III) the additional new budget 
authority provided in an appropriation 
Act for wildfire suppression operations 
pursuant to subparagraph (E) for the 
preceding fiscal year.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(v) Beginning in fiscal year 2017 
and in subsequent fiscal years, the calcula-
tion of the ‘average funding provided for 
disaster relief over the previous 10 years’ 
under clause (i)(I) shall include any addi-
tional new budget authority provided in an 
appropriation Act for wildfire suppression 
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operations 
pursuant 
to 
subparagraph 
(E).’’. 
Æ 
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