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                     119TH CONGRESS                                      REPT.119-673
                        2d Session  j  HOUSE   OF REPRESENTATIVES            Part 1





                            CROSS-BOUNDARY WILDFIRE SOLUTIONS ACT


                      JUNE 2, 2026.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
                                        the Union and ordered to be printed



                        Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
                                          submitted  the  following


                                              REPORT

                                            [To accompany H.R. 3922]

                              [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                      The  Committee   on Natural  Resources, to whom   was referred the
                    bill (H.R. 3922)  to direct the Comptroller  General  of the United
                    States to conduct  a study on existing programs, rules, and authori-
                    ties that enable or inhibit wildfire mitigation across land ownership
                    boundaries  on  Federal  and  non-Federal  land, and  for other pur-
                    poses, having  considered the  same, reports favorably thereon  with
                    an  amendment   and  recommends   that the bill as amended  do pass.
                      The  amendment   is as follows:
                      Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
                    SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
                      This Act may be cited as the Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act.
                    SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
                      In this Act:
                         (1) COVERED AGENCY.-The term covered agency means-
                             (A) each Federal land management agency (as defined in section 802 of
                           the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6801));
                             (B) the Natural Resources Conservation Service;
                             (C) the Environmental Protection Agency;
                             (D) the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
                             (E) the United States Fire Administration;
                             (F) States;
                             (G) Indian Tribes; and
                             (H) local governments.
                         (2) COVERED AUTHORITY.-The term covered authority means-
                             (A) the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.);
                             (B) the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101 et
                           seq.);
                             (C) the good neighbor authority under section 8206 of the Agricultural
                           Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a);
                             (D) the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 (25 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.);


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