(iv) in section 8421a(b)(4)(B)(ii), by 
inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘section 8412(d)’’; 
(v) in section 8425, by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ 
after ‘‘section 8412(d)’’ each place it ap-
pears; and 
(vi) in section 8462(c)(3)(B)(ii), by 
inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘subsection (d)’’. 
(2) IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(A) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector shall promulgate regulations to carry out 
the amendments made by paragraph (2). Such 
regulations— 
(i) shall include a requirement that 
the head of the agency at which an af-
fected employee incurred the applicable ill-
ness or injury certifies that such illness or 
injury— 
(I) was incurred in the course of 
the employee’s duties; and 
(II) permanently precludes the 
employee from rendering useful and 
efficient service in a firefighter posi-
tion but would not preclude the em-
ployee or special agent from con-
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tinuing to serve in the Federal service; 
and 
(ii) shall ensure— 
(I) that, to the greatest extent 
possible, the head of each agency ap-
points affected employees to super-
visory or administrative positions re-
lated to the activities of the former 
firefighter position of the employee; 
and 
(II) that the creditable service of 
an affected employee that is not in a 
firefighter position pursuant to an 
election made under such amendments 
shall be treated as the same type of 
service as the firefighter position in 
which the employee suffered the quali-
fying illness or injury. 
(B) 
APPLICATION.—The 
amendments 
made by this section shall apply to an indi-
vidual who suffers an illness or injury described 
in section 8412(d)(2)(A)(i)(II) of title 5, United 
States Code, as amended by this subsection, on 
or after the date that is 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
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(b) DEPOSIT SERVICE.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, any service performed by an individual 
as a Federal wildland firefighter on or after January 1, 
1989, for which retirement deductions under chapter 84 
of title 5, United States Code, have not been made shall 
be creditable under such chapter, but only if such fire-
fighter— 
(1) submits a written election to the Director; 
and 
(2) the deposit requirements of section 8411(f) 
of such title had been met with respect to such serv-
ice. 
(c) DISABILITY ANNUITY.—Beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act, any Federal wildland firefighter 
who suffers from a disease described in section 8102(c)(3) 
of title 5, United States Code (as added by section 3(d) 
of this Act), due to environmental job-related exposure, 
including smoke inhalation, silicate inhalation, and fire-
fighting chemical exposure, shall be considered to be dis-
abled for purposes of section 8451 of such title. Such sec-
tion 8451 shall be applied to any such firefighter by sub-
stituting ‘‘12 months’’ for ‘‘18 months’’. 
(d) INCLUDING OVERTIME AS BASIC PAY.—Section 
8331(3) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
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(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (I), by inserting ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(J) with respect to a Federal wildland 
firefighter (as that term is defined in section 
1(b) of the Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter 
Classification and Pay Parity Act), overtime 
pay received on or after the date of enactment 
of this subparagraph;’’; and 
(4) in the undesignated matter following sub-
paragraph (J) (as added by paragraph (3)), by strik-
ing ‘‘subparagraphs (B) through (I) of this para-
graph’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (B) through 
(J) of this paragraph,’’. 
(e) SEPARATE NORMAL-COST PERCENTAGE.—Sec-
tion 8423(a)(1)(B)(i) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after ‘‘firefighters,’’ the following: 
‘‘Federal wildland firefighter (as that term is defined in 
section 1 of the Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classifica-
tion and Pay Parity Act),’’. 
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SEC. 5. PAY PARITY FOR FEDERAL STRUCTURAL FIRE-
FIGHTERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, any pay, benefits, and bo-
nuses provided to any Federal structural firefighter shall 
be comparable with the pay, benefits, and bonuses pro-
vided for Federal wildland firefighters under this Act. Not 
later than 1 year after the date the pay scale is established 
under section 2(b)(1), the Director shall submit a report 
to Congress on whether pay for such Federal structural 
firefighters is competitive with Federal wildland fire-
fighters. 
(b) FEDERAL
STRUCTURAL
FIREFIGHTER
DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Federal structural fire-
fighter’’— 
(1) has the meaning given the term ‘‘fire-
fighter’’ in section 8401 of chapter 84 of title 5, 
United States Code; and 
(2) does not include any Federal wildland fire-
fighter. 
Æ 
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