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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7362 
To establish cooperative agreements for wildland fire research, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2024 
Ms. BONAMICI (for herself, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. DUARTE, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. 
VALADAO, and Mr. CURTIS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To establish cooperative agreements for wildland fire 
research, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Satellites Preventing 
Agricultural Crises and Emergencies Act of 2024’’ or the 
‘‘SPACE Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHING COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR 
WILDLAND FIRE RESEARCH. 
(a) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall enter into cooperative agreements with land- 
grant colleges and universities with a demonstrable 
capacity to collect data, interpret, report on, and 
otherwise conduct research on wildland fire sciences 
for the purpose of promoting and researching the 
use of available satellite data in order to predict, 
control, monitor, or otherwise mitigate wildland fire 
risk, including relating to the following: 
(A) Smoke detection, land temperature, 
fire weather, fuel composition, soil moisture, 
and other metrics. 
(B) Advanced remote sensing technologies, 
including light detection and ranging, forest 
carbon monitoring, and use of geostationary 
and geosynchronous remote sensing resources. 
(C) Resource deployment, wildland fire 
management, and area mapping. 
(D) Wildland fire behavior and predictive 
modeling from historic, real-time, and near real- 
time acquired data. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In entering cooperative 
agreements under paragraph (1), the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall— 
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(A) make available to recipient institutions 
satellite data acquired by the Agriculture Re-
search Service, the National Agriculture Im-
agery Program, the National Institute of Food 
and Agriculture, and other research agencies 
determined relevant by the Secretary, including 
such data that— 
(i) provide real or near-real time im-
ages of earth’s landmass; 
(ii) can be gathered in multiple spec-
tral bands, including infrared; and 
(iii) provide historical data sets to 
mode, forecast, and track wildland fires; 
and 
(B) require recipient institutions to share 
scientific 
research 
and 
reports, 
including 
wildland fire forecasts, models, smoke drift pat-
terns, gaps and deficits in available data, and 
any other materials produced by resources pro-
vided by the Department of Agriculture deter-
mined necessary by the Secretary. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nu-
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