Sec. 3. Hazardous fuels reduction projects. 
Sec. 4. Expedited process. 
Sec. 5. Judicial review in the United States District Courts. 
Sec. 6. Contracting. 
Sec. 7. Biomass grants. 
Sec. 8. Forest stands inventory and monitoring program. 
Sec. 9. Emergency fuels reduction grants. 
Sec. 10. Market incentives for home protection. 
Sec. 11. Ongoing projects and existing authorities. 
Sec. 12. Preference to communities that have ordinances on fire prevention. 
Sec. 13. Sunset. 
Sec. 14. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 15. Definitions.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 2002, approximately six and one half 
million acres of forest lands in the United States 
burned with varying degrees of severity, 21 people 
lost their lives, and over 3000 structures were de-
stroyed. The Forest Service and Bureau of Land 
Management spent more than $1,000,000,000 fight-
ing these fires. 
(2) 73,000,000 acres of public lands are classi-
fied as condition class 3 fire risks. This includes 23 
million acres that are in strategic areas designated 
by the United States Forest Service for emergency 
treatment to withstand catastrophic fire. 
(3) The forest management policy of fire sup-
pression has resulted in an accumulation of fuel 
loads, dead and dying trees, and nonnative species 
that create fuel ladders which allow fires to reach
the crowns of large old trees and cause catastrophic 
fire. 
(4) The United States Forest Service and the 
Department of the Interior should immediately un-
dertake an emergency program to reduce the risk of 
catastrophic fire. 
(5) This emergency program should prioritize 
the protection of homes and communities and the 
restoration of forest health on lands at the highest 
risk of catastrophic fire. All fuel reduction treat-
ments should protect old growth stands and large 
trees to ensure a rich and continued species diversity 
in the Nation’s forests. 
SEC. 3. HAZARDOUS FUELS REDUCTION PROJECTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries of Agriculture 
and the Interior shall conduct immediately and to comple-
tion hazardous fuels reduction projects consistent with the 
Comprehensive Strategy for a Collaborative Approach for 
Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the 
Environment on an aggregate area of 20,000,000 acres 
of Federal land: 
(1) These projects shall be conducted on the 
priority lands identified in subsection (d), using the 
expedited procedures in section 4.
(2) The Secretaries shall protect old growth 
stands and large trees pursuant to subsection (h). 
(b) SELECTION OF PROJECTS.—The Secretaries of 
Agriculture and the Interior shall jointly select hazardous 
fuels reduction projects identified by the Implementation 
Plan of the Comprehensive Strategy. 
(c) CONSISTENCY WITH EXISTING FOREST MANAGE-
MENT PLANS AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS.—Any project 
carried out pursuant to this Act shall be consistent with 
the applicable forest plan, resource management plan, or 
other applicable agency plans or environmental laws ex-
cept as specifically amended by this Act. 
(d) PRIORITY LANDS.—In implementing projects 
under this Act, the Secretaries of Agriculture and the In-
terior shall give highest priority to: 
(1) Wildland-urban interface: Condition class 3 
or condition class 2 Federal lands or, where appro-
priate, non-Federal lands. 
(2) Municipal watersheds: Condition class 3 
Federal lands located in such proximity to a munic-
ipal water supply system that a hazardous fuels re-
duction project must be carried out to reduce the 
risk of harm to such system resulting from wildfire. 
(3) Fire Regime I lands: Federal lands that are 
condition class 3.
(4) Fire Regimes II and III lands: Condition 
class 3 Federal lands identified by the Secretary as 
an area where windthrow or blowdown, or the exist-
ence of disease or insect infestation, pose a signifi-
cant threat to forest health or adjacent private 
lands. 
(e) PUBLIC NOTICE AND PUBLIC RESPONSE.—
(1) QUARTERLY NOTICE.—The Secretary shall 
provide quarterly notice of each hazardous fuels re-
duction project which uses the streamlined processes 
established by this Act. The quarterly notice shall be 
provided for all projects in the Federal Register and 
on an agency website and in a local paper of record 
for local projects. The Secretary may combine this 
quarterly notice with other quarterly notices other-
wise issued regarding Federal forest management. 
(2) CONTENT.—For each hazardous fuels re-
duction project for which the processes established 
by this Act are to be used the notice required by 
paragraph (1) shall include at a minimum:
(A) Identification of each project as a haz-
ardous fuels reduction project for which the 
processes established by this Act are to be used.
(B) A description of the project, including 
as much information on its geographic location 
as practicable. 
(C) The approximate date on which 
scoping for the project will begin. 
(D) Information regarding how interested 
members of the public can take part in the de-
velopment of the project, including, but not lim-
ited to, project related public meeting notifica-
tion. 
(3) PUBLIC
MEETING.—Following publication 
of each quarterly notice under paragraph (1), but 
before the beginning of scoping under section 4(a), 
the Secretary shall conduct a public meeting at an 
appropriate location in each administrative unit of 
the Federal lands regarding those hazardous fuels 
reduction projects contained in the quarterly notice 
that are proposed to be conducted in that adminis-
trative unit. The Secretary shall provide advance no-
tice of the date and time of the meeting in the quar-
terly notice or using the same means described in 
paragraph (1). 
(4) 
PUBLIC
RESPONSE
TO
NOTICE
OF 
PROJECTS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—A federally formed re-
source advisory committee may petition, with 
supporting evidence, the Secretary to better as-
sess ground conditions of land to be covered by 
projects, during scoping or public comment on 
specific hazardous fuels reduction projects iden-
tified under subsection (b). 
(B) PRIORITY LANDS INCLUDED IN THE 
PROJECTS.—For specific hazardous fuels reduc-
tion projects the petitioner may seek to correct 
the inclusion or exclusion of priority lands iden-
tified in subsection (d). The petitioner may also 
seek designation of large trees or old growth 
stands to be protected under subsection (h). 
(C) SECRETARIAL
RESPONSE.—The Sec-
retary must respond to the petition within 30 
days by public notice by the same means de-
scribed in paragraph (1). The Secretary shall 
provide a public viewing of the area in question 
if requested in the petition within 90 days of re-
ceipt of the petition, with the petitioner and any 
other interested parties. 
(D) DETERMINATION OF PETITION.—The 
Secretary must accept or deny the petition 
within 120 days of its receipt, based on site-
specific review of historic ecological conditions, 
forest type, present fuel loads, and determina-
tion of whether the area properly qualifies as 
priority lands under subsection (d). 
(5) FINAL
AGENCY
ACTION.—The Secretary 
shall provide notice by the same means described in 
paragraph (1) of any final agency action regarding 
a hazardous fuels reduction project for which the 
processes established by this Act are used. 
(f) PRIORITY
HAZARDOUS
FUELS
REDUCTION 
FUNDING.—The Secretaries shall expend no less than 70 
percent of funds under this Act on projects within the 
wildland-urban interface, provided that the Secretaries 
may adjust this funding formula for a particular State at 
the request of its governor. In no event shall the Secre-
taries expend less than 50 percent or greater than 75 per-
cent of funds within the wildland-urban interface for a 
particular State. 
(g) MONITORING.—The Secretaries shall establish a 
multiparty monitoring process with representation from 
resource industries, environmentalists, independent sci-
entists, community-based organizations, and other inter-
ested parties in order for Congress to assess a representa-
tive sampling of the hazardous fuels reduction projects im-
plemented pursuant to this Act.
(h) LIMITATIONS.—In implementing hazardous fuels 
reduction projects under this Act the Secretary shall—
(1) not undertake any hazardous fuels reduc-
tion projects in wilderness study areas or compo-
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation Sys-
tem; 
(2) not construct new roads in inventoried 
roadless areas as part of any hazardous fuels reduc-
tion project; 
(3) fully maintain the structure, function, proc-
esses and composition of structurally complex older 
forests (old growth) according to each ecosystem 
type; and 
(4) outside old growth stands—
(A) shall focus on small diameter trees and 
thin from below to modify fire behavior as 
measured by rate of spread, height to live 
crown, and flame length; and 
(B) shall maximize the retention of large 
trees to the extent that they promote fire-resist-
ant stands and species diversity as appropriate 
for the forest type and site.
SEC. 4. EXPEDITED PROCESS. 
(a) SCOPING.—The Secretary shall conduct scoping 
for each hazardous fuels reduction project implemented 
pursuant to this Act. 
(b) CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS IN THE WILDLAND-
URBAN INTERFACE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The wildland-urban interface 
hazardous fuels reduction projects authorized by this 
Act are conclusively determined to be categorically 
excluded from further analysis under the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (‘‘NEPA’’) (42 
U.S.C. 4332), and the Secretary need not make any 
findings as to whether the projects individually or 
cumulatively have a significant effect on the environ-
ment. 
(2) VARIED TREATMENTS.—The Secretary shall 
vary the treatments and avoid clear cuts inside the 
wildland-urban interface to ensure forest health. The 
Secretary shall also protect old growth and large 
trees pursuant to section 3(h). 
(3) EXTRAORDINARY
CIRCUMSTANCES
EXCEP-
TION.—For all hazardous fuels reduction projects 
implemented pursuant to this subsection, if there are 
extraordinary circumstances, the Secretary shall fol-
low agency procedures related to categorical exclu-
sions and extraordinary circumstances. For the pur-
poses of this subsection, a project’s location within 
a municipal watershed shall not be considered an ex-
traordinary circumstance. 
(4) APPEALS.—No hazardous fuels reduction 
projects implemented pursuant to this subsection 
shall be subject to appeal requirements of the Ap-
peals Reform Act (section 322 of Public Law 102–
381) or the Department of the Interior Office of 
Hearings and Appeals. 
(c) ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS OUTSIDE THE 
WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For hazardous fuels reduc-
tion projects implemented pursuant to this Act on 
priority lands identified in section 3(d), if a categor-
ical exclusion does not apply, the Secretary shall de-
termine, consistent with NEPA, whether an environ-
mental assessment is sufficient and use the proce-
dures set forth in the Council on Environmental 
Quality ‘‘Guidance for Environmental Assessments 
of Forest Health Projects,’’ of December 9, 2002, or 
as amended. 
(2) ISSUANCE OF DOCUMENTATION AND SHORT-
ENED APPEALS.—Notwithstanding the Appeals Re-
form Act, section 322 of the Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1993 (Public Law 102–381; 16 U.S.C. 1612 note), 
or regulations pertaining to the Department of the 
Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals procedures, 
for hazardous fuels reduction projects implemented 
by environmental assessments pursuant to sub-
section (c)(1): 
(A) The Secretary may issue the environ-
mental documentation and the decision docu-
ment for the project simultaneously without 
public comment. Such issuance shall begin the 
administrative appeals process immediately. 
(B) Persons must file any administrative 
appeal of projects under this subsection within 
30 days after the date of issuance of a decision. 
(C) The Secretary shall resolve any appeal 
not later than 30 days after the closing date for 
filing an appeal. 
(D) If the review officer determines that 
an appeal has merit, in lieu of remanding the 
proposed agency action, the review officer, in 
consultation with the parties, may sign a new 
decision. 
(E) The Secretary shall stay implementa-
tion of the project for 15 days beginning on the 
date on which the Secretary resolves any ad-
ministrative appeal that complies with the re-
quirements in subsection (d). 
(d) STANDING TO APPEAL.—If a draft document pre-
pared pursuant to NEPA for a hazardous fuels reduction 
project was available for public comment, or the project 
had scoping, the Secretary may require that a person fil-
ing an administrative appeal with respect to the project 
must have been involved in the public comment process 
for the project by submitting specific and substantive writ-
ten comments with regard to the project or must have par-
ticipated in the scoping of the project. 
(e) SALVAGE MONITORING PILOT PROGRAM.—
(1) SALVAGE PILOT.—The Secretary is author-
ized to use the administrative appeals authorities 
under this subsection, pursuant to paragraph (2), 
for salvage hazardous fuels reduction projects in the 
area popularly known as the Biscuit Fire and ref-
erence on the map entitled ll and dated ll on 
file at the Forest Service ll office. 
(2) MONITORING.—The Secretary shall require 
that any salvage hazardous fuels reduction project 
on the Biscuit Fire be subject to ecological and eco-
nomic monitoring of its effects, including on-site 
evaluation and inspections. The monitoring shall be 
conducted by a group with representation from inde-
pendent scientists, industry representatives, environ-
mentalists, community-based organizations, and 
other interested parties. Group selection shall be 
through the Western Governors Association Collabo-
rative process. The group shall report to the public 
under section 3(e)(1) on the ecological and economic 
effects of individual salvage hazardous fuels projects. 
SEC. 5. JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE UNITED STATES DIS-
TRICT COURTS. 
(a) VENUE.—A hazardous fuels reduction project 
conducted under this Act shall be subject to judicial review 
only in the United States district court for the district in 
which the Federal lands to be treated by the hazardous 
fuels reduction project are located, notwithstanding sec-
tion 1391 of title 28, United States Code, or any other 
applicable venue statutes. 
(b) EXPEDITIOUS COMPLETION OF JUDICIAL RE-
VIEW.—Congress intends and encourages any court in 
which is filed a lawsuit or appeal of a lawsuit concerning 
an authorized hazardous fuels reduction project to expe-
dite, to the maximum extent practicable, the proceedings 
in such lawsuit or appeal with the goal of rendering a final 
determination on jurisdiction, and if jurisdiction exists, a 
final determination on the merits, as soon as possible from 
the date the complaint or appeal is filed.
(c) DURATION OF INJUNCTION.—Any temporary in-
junctive relief granted regarding a project undertaken pur-
suant to this Act shall be limited to 60 days, with author-
ity to renew each temporary injunction without limitation. 
For each injunctive renewal the parties shall present the 
court with updates on the status of the project. 
(d) STANDARD OF REVIEW.—Nothing in this section 
shall change the standards of judicial review for any action 
concerning a project authorized under this Act. 
SEC. 6. CONTRACTING. 
(a) BEST VALUE CONTRACTING.—The Secretary 
shall use best value contracting criteria in awarding at 
least fifty percent of contracts and agreements for haz-
ardous fuels reduction projects pursuant to this Act. Best 
value contract criteria will include, but not be limited to—
(1) the ability of the contractor to meet the eco-
logical goals of the projects; 
(2) the use of equipment that will minimize or 
eliminate impacts on soils; and 
(3) benefit to local economies in performing the 
restorative treatments and ensuring that wood by-
products are processed locally. 
(b) MONITORING.—The Forest Service shall monitor 
the business and employment impacts of hazardous fuels
reduction projects including the total dollar value of con-
tracts and agreements awarded to qualifying entities. 
(c) PUBLIC LANDS CORPS.—
(1) CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries are au-
thorized to enter into contracts or cooperative 
agreements with a Public Lands Corps—
(i) 
to 
implement 
and 
complete 
projects prioritized in section 3(b) and (d) 
of this Act; and 
(ii) to perform appropriate rehabilita-
tion, 
enhancement, 
or 
beautification 
projects with the Department of Natural 
Resources, Department of Forestry or De-
partment of Agriculture of any State. 
(B) INDIAN
LANDS.—Such projects may 
also be carried out on Indian lands with the ap-
proval of the relevant Indian tribe. 
(C) PREFERENCE.—The Secretaries shall 
give preference to those projects which take 
place on lands identified as priorities in section 
3(d) of this Act and can be planned and initi-
ated promptly. 
(D) SUPPORTIVE
SERVICES.—The Secre-
taries are authorized to provide such services as
the Secretaries deem necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this Act. 
(E) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secre-
taries shall work with the National Association 
of Service and Conservation Corps to provide 
technical assistance, oversight, monitoring, and 
evaluation to the United States Departments of 
Agriculture and the Interior, State Depart-
ments of Natural Resources and Agriculture, 
and Public Lands Corps. 
(2) NONDISPLACEMENT.—The nondisplacement 
requirements of section 177 of the National and 
Community Service Trust Act of 1990 shall be ap-
plicable to all activities carried out under this Act by 
the Public Lands Corps. 
(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
the purposes of this subsection there are authorized 
to be appropriated $12,500,000 annually for 5 years 
after the enactment of this Act. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this sec-
tion—
(1) CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS.—The term 
‘‘contracts and agreements’’ means service contracts, 
timber sale contracts, construction contracts, supply 
contracts, emergency equipment rental agreements,
architectural and engineering contracts, challenge 
cost-share agreements, cooperative agreements, and 
participating agreements. 
(2) QUALIFYING
ENTITY.—The term ‘‘quali-
fying entity’’ means—
(A) a natural-resource related small or 
micro-enterprise; 
(B) a Youth Conservation Corps or Public 
Lands Corps crew or related partnership with 
State, local and other non-Federal conservation 
corps; 
(C) an entity that will hire and train local 
people to complete the contract or agreement; 
(D) an entity that will re-train non-local 
traditional forest workers to complete the con-
tract or agreement; or 
(E) a local entity that meets the criteria to 
qualify for the Historically Underutilized Busi-
ness Zone Program under section 32 of the 
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657a). 
(3) PUBLIC LANDS CORPS.—The term ‘‘Public 
Lands Corps’’ means any organization established 
by a state or local government, nonprofit organiza-
tion, or Indian tribe that: 
(A) has demonstrated the ability:
(i) to provide labor intensive produc-
tive work to individuals; 
(ii) to recruit and train economically 
disadvantaged or at-risk youth; 
(iii) to give participants a combination 
of work experience, basic and life skills, 
education, training and support services; 
and 
(iv) to provide participants with the 
opportunity to develop citizenship values 
through service to their communities and 
the United States; and 
(B) has also successfully completed, or is 
engaged in, a peer-reviewed, standards based 
program assessment process. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United 
States, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands. 
SEC. 7. BIOMASS GRANTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
(1) ELIGIBLE OPERATION.—The term ‘‘eligible 
operation’’ means a facility that is located within the 
boundaries of an eligible community and uses bio-
mass from Federal or Tribal lands as a raw material 
to produce electric energy, sensible heat, transpor-
tation fuels, or substitutes for petroleum-based prod-
ucts. 
(2) BIOMASS.—The term ‘‘biomass’’ means pre-
commercial thinnings of trees and woody plants, or 
non-merchantable material, from hazardous fuels re-
duction projects. 
(3) GREEN TON.—The term ‘‘green ton’’ means 
2,000 pounds of biomass that has not been mechani-
cally or artificially dried. 
(4) ELIGIBLE COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘eligible 
community’’ means any Indian Reservation, or any 
county, town, township, municipality, or other simi-
lar unit of local government that has a population 
of not more than 50,000 individuals and is deter-
mined by the Secretary to be located in an area near 
Federal or Tribal lands which is at significant risk 
of catastrophic wildfire, disease, or insect infestation 
or which suffers from disease or insect infestation. 
(5) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 4(e) of 
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)).
(b) BIOMASS
COMMERCIAL
UTILIZATION
GRANT 
PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may make 
grants to any individual, community, Indian tribe, 
small business or corporation, or nonprofit that owns 
or operates an eligible operation to offset capital ex-
penses and costs incurred to purchase biomass for 
use by such eligible operation with priority given to 
operations using biomass from the highest risk 
areas. 
(2) LIMITATION.—No grant provided under this 
subsection shall be paid at a rate that exceeds $20 
per green ton of biomass delivered. 
(3) RECORDS.—Each grant recipient shall keep 
such records as the Secretary may require to fully 
and correctly disclose the use of the grant funds and 
all transactions involved in the purchase of biomass. 
Upon notice by the Secretary, the grant recipient 
shall provide the Secretary reasonable access to ex-
amine the inventory and records of any eligible oper-
ation receiving grant funds. 
(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
the purposes of this subsection, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $12,500,000 each to the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agri-
culture for each fiscal year for five years after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(c) IMPROVED BIOMASS UTILIZATION PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may make 
grants to persons in eligible communities to offset 
the costs of developing or researching proposals to 
improve the use of biomass or add value to biomass 
utilization. 
(2) SELECTION.—Grant recipients shall be se-
lected based on the potential for the proposal to—
(A) develop affordable thermal or electric 
energy resources for the benefit of an eligible 
community; 
(B) provide opportunities for the creation 
or expansion of small businesses within an eligi-
ble community; 
(C) create new job opportunities within an 
eligible community, and 
(D) reduce the hazardous fuels from the 
highest risk areas. 
(3) LIMITATION.—No grant awarded under this 
subsection shall exceed $500,000. 
(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
the purposes of this subsection, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $12,500,000 each to the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agri-
culture for each fiscal year for the five years after 
enactment of this Act. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly submit to the 
Congress a report that describes the interim results of the 
programs authorized under this section. 
SEC. 8. FOREST STANDS INVENTORY AND MONITORING 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior shall carry out, in conjunc-
tion with the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion and other relevant agencies and research facilities (in-
cluding the Forest Service Research Stations and aca-
demic institutions), a comprehensive program to inventory 
and assess forest stands on federal forest land and, with 
the consent of the owner, private forest land. The objective 
of this program shall be to evaluate current and future 
forest health conditions and address ecological impacts of 
insect, disease, invasive species, fire and weather-related 
episodic events. Emphasis shall be placed upon coordi-
nating, reconciling, and field verification of existing data 
(including remotely sensed and modeled data utilized to 
characterize vegetation/cover types, density, fire regimes,
fire effects, and condition classes), and improving the ac-
curacy of such data to assist in management activities. 
(b) LOCATION.—The facility for this program shall 
be located at the Ochoco National Forest Headquarters 
in Prineville, Oregon. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated $5,000,000 each fiscal year for the five years after 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 9. EMERGENCY FUELS REDUCTION GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
establish an Emergency Fuels Reduction Grant program 
to provide State and local agencies with financial assist-
ance for hazardous fuels reduction projects addressing 
threats of catastrophic fire that have been determined by 
the United States Forest Service to pose a serious threat 
to human life. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—Fuels reduction projects eligible 
for funding under the Emergency Fuels Reduction Grant 
program shall—
(1) be surrounded by or immediately adjacent 
to national forest boundaries; 
(2) have been determined to be of paramount 
urgency by virtue of declarations of emergency by
both local officials and the governor of the State in 
which they are located; and 
(3) remove fuel loading determined to pose a 
serious threat to human life by the United States 
Forest Service. 
(c) USE
OF GRANT FUNDS.—Funds authorized 
under this section shall be limited to the following uses: 
(1) Removal of trees, shrubs or other potential 
fuels adjacent to primary evacuation routes. 
(2) Removal of trees, shrubs or other potential 
fuels adjacent to emergency response centers, emer-
gency communication facilities or sites designated as 
shelter-in-place facilities. 
(3) evacuation drills and preparation. 
(d) REVOLVING FUND.—For work done on private 
property and county lands, the grant recipients shall de-
posit into a revolving fund any proceeds from sale of the 
timber or biomass from the projects funded under this sec-
tion. The revolving fund shall be used to assist with subse-
quent grants under this section. 
(e) EMERGENCY FUELS REDUCTION GRANTS.—For 
the purposes of funding the Emergency Fuels Reduction 
Grant program under this Act, there are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture $50,000,000 
each fiscal year that this Act is in effect. Subject to section
14, amounts appropriated in one fiscal year and unobli-
gated before the end of that fiscal year shall remain avail-
able for use in subsequent fiscal years. 
SEC. 10. MARKET INCENTIVES FOR HOME PROTECTION. 
It is the Sense of Congress that insurers should re-
duce premiums for homeowners in condition class 2 and 
condition class 3 areas within the wildland-urban interface 
who—
(1) clear brush and other flammable material in 
the vicinity of their homes; 
(2) use nonflammable building materials for 
roofs and other critical structures; 
(3) otherwise improve the defensibility of their 
homes against catastrophic fire. 
SEC. 11. ONGOING PROJECTS AND EXISTING AUTHORITIES. 
Nothing in this Act shall affect projects begun prior 
to enactment of this Act or affect authorities otherwise 
granted to the Secretaries under existing law. 
SEC. 12. PREFERENCE TO COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE ORDI-
NANCES ON FIRE PREVENTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In determining the allocation of 
funding for the Community and Private Land Fire Assist-
ance Program (16 U.S.C. 2106c/PL–171 section 10A(b)), 
the Secretary shall prioritize funding to those communities 
which have taken proactive steps through the enactment
of ordinances and other means, including those that have 
developed a comprehensive fire protection plan encom-
passing all ownerships, to encourage property owners to 
reduce fire risk on private property. 
(b) PRIVATE LANDS.—Nothing in this Act shall af-
fect existing authorities to use appropriations authorized 
by this Act to carry out the provisions under this Act on 
non-Federal lands with the consent of the land owner. 
SEC. 13. SUNSET. 
The provisions of this Act shall expire five years after 
the date of enactment, except that projects for which a 
decision notice has been issued by that date may continue 
to be implemented. 
SEC. 14. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS.—For the 
purposes of planning and conducting hazardous fuels re-
duction projects under this Act on National Forest System 
Lands, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture $1,943,100,000 during the 5-year 
period beginning October 1, 2003. Subject to section 13, 
amounts appropriated in one fiscal year and unobligated 
before the end of that fiscal year shall remain available 
for use in subsequent fiscal years. 
(b) BLM LANDS.—For the purpose of planning and 
conducting hazardous fuels reduction projects under this
Act on Federal lands managed by the Secretary of the In-
terior, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of the Interior $1,888,000,000 during the 5-year 
period beginning October 1, 2003. Subject to section 13, 
amounts appropriated in one fiscal year and unobligated 
before the end of that fiscal year shall remain available 
for use in subsequent fiscal years. 
SEC. 15. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) LAND TYPES AND FIRE REGIME AREAS.—In this 
Act, definitions of land types and fire regimes originate 
from the United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain 
Research Station, as follows: 
(1) CONDITION CLASS 2.—The term ‘‘condition 
class 2’’ refers to lands on which—
(A) fire frequencies have been moderately 
altered and have departed from historic fire re-
turn frequencies (either increased or decreased) 
by one or more return interval, which results in 
moderate changes to fire size, frequency, inten-
sity, severity or landscape patterns; 
(B) there exists a moderate risk of losing 
key ecosystem components; and 
(C) vegetation attributes have been mod-
erately altered from their historic range.
(2) CONDITION CLASS 3.—The term ‘‘condition 
class 3’’ refers to lands on which—
(A) fire regimes have been significantly al-
tered from their historic range, which results in 
dramatic changes to fire size, frequency, inten-
sity, severity, or landscape patterns; 
(B) there exists a high risk of losing key 
ecosystem components; and 
(C) vegetation attributes have been signifi-
cantly altered from their historic range. 
(3) FIRE REGIME I.—The term ‘‘fire regime I’’ 
refers to lands on which historically fire recurs in 0–
35 year intervals and burns with low severity. 
(4) FIRE REGIME II.—The term ‘‘fire regime 
II’’ refers to lands on which historically fire recurs 
in 0–35 year intervals and replaces existing vegeta-
tion. 
(5) FIRE REGIME III.—The term ‘‘fire regime 
III’’ refers to lands on which historically fire recurs 
in 35–100 year intervals and burns with mixed se-
verity. 
(b) AT-RISK COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘at-risk com-
munity’’ means a geographic area designated by the Sec-
retary as any area—
(1) defined as an interface community in Vol-
ume 66, page 753, of the January 4, 2001 Federal 
Register; 
(2) on which conditions are conducive to large-
scale wildland fire disturbance events; and 
(3) for which a significant threat to human life 
exists as a result of wildland fire disturbance events. 
(c) BEST VALUE CONTRACTING.—The term ‘‘best 
value contracting’’ means the contracting process de-
scribed in section 15.101 of title 48, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, which allows the inclusion of non-cost factors in 
the federal contract process. 
(d) COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY.—The term ‘‘Com-
prehensive Strategy’’ means the Comprehensive Strategy 
for a Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire 
Risks to Communities and the Environment, dated May 
2002, including by reference the related Implementation 
Plan, which was developed pursuant to the conference re-
port to accompany the Department of Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (House Report 106–
646). 
(e) FEDERAL LANDS.—The term ‘‘Federal lands’’ 
means National Forest System lands and public forested 
lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior acting 
through the Bureau of Land Management.
(f) GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.—The term ‘‘geographic 
feature’’ means a ridge top, road, stream, or other land-
scape feature which can serve naturally as a firebreak, 
staging ground for firefighting, or boundary affecting fire 
behavior. 
(g) HAZARDOUS FUELS REDUCTION PROJECT.—The 
term ‘‘hazardous fuels reduction project’’ means a 
project— 
(1) undertaken for the purpose of reducing the 
amount of hazardous fuels resulting from alteration 
of a natural fire regime as a result of fire suppres-
sion or other management activities; and 
(2) accomplished through the use of prescribed 
burning or mechanical treatment, or a combination 
thereof. 
(h) INVENTORIED
ROADLESS
AREA.—The term 
‘‘inventoried roadless area’’ means one of the areas identi-
fied in the set of inventoried roadless area maps contained 
in the Forest Service Roadless Areas Conservation, Final 
Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, dated No-
vember, 2000. 
(i) LOCAL PREFERENCE CONTRACTING.—The term 
‘‘local preference contracting’’ means the Federal con-
tracting process that gives preference to local businesses 
described in section 333 of the Department of Interior and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 (division F of 
Public Law 108–7, 117 Stat. 277). 
(j) MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM.—The term 
‘‘municipal water supply system’’ means reservoirs, canals, 
ditches, flumes, laterals, pipes, pipelines, or other surface 
facilities and systems constructed or installed for the im-
poundment, storage, transportation, or distribution of 
drinking water for a community. 
(k) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the 
Secretary of Agriculture, or the Secretary’s designee, with 
respect to National Forest System lands; and the Sec-
retary of the Interior, or the Secretary’s designees, with 
respect to public lands administered by the Secretary 
through the Bureau of Land Management. 
(l) 
WILDLAND-URBAN
INTERFACE.—The 
term 
‘‘wildland-urban interface’’ means the area either within 
an at-risk community or within the area—
(1) extending out to a geographic feature, if 
there is such a feature within approximately three-
quarters of a mile of the community boundary; or 
(2) if there is no such geographic feature, ex-
tending out 1⁄2 mile from the community boundary.
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