To establish and maintain a coordinated program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that improves wildfire, fire weather, fire risk, and smoke related forecasting, detection, modeling, observations, and service delivery, and to address growing needs in the wildland-urban interface, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Creates coordinated NOAA program for fire weather forecasting, smoke prediction, and wildfire impact assessment. Improves fire environment modeling capabilities.
Who Benefits and How
Emergency responders gain better fire weather predictions. Communities benefit from improved smoke forecasts. Firefighters receive enhanced decision support.
Who Bears the Burden and How
NOAA must establish and coordinate new programs. Budget required for fire weather capabilities. Interagency coordination demands resources.
Key Provisions
- Establishes NOAA fire weather and wildfire program
- Improves Earth system modeling for fire environment
- Provides impact-based decision support services
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Establishes NOAA program for fire weather forecasting and wildfire prediction
Who Benefits
- Emergency responders
- Communities
- Firefighters
Who Bears Costs
- NOAA
- Federal budget
Key Policy Areas
Weather, Wildfires, NOAA, Public Safety
Primary Purpose
Establishes NOAA program for fire weather forecasting and wildfire prediction
Policy Domains
Legislative Strategy
"Enhance federal fire weather prediction capabilities"
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReported by Ms. Cantwell, with an amendment
Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Luján, Mr. Sullivan, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
AI weather forecasting programs, Federal agencies with fire management responsibilities, Federal agencies with fire-related responsibilities
NOAA AI weather programs faces effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Federal employees in wildfire response (Commerce, Agriculture, Interior), Federal wildfire response employees (Commerce, Agriculture, Interior), Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian Community, Land management agencies, NOAA AI and data science workforce, NOAA National Mesonet Program, NOAA fire weather programs, NOAA national security programs, National Weather Service incident meteorologists
Negative-direction: Federal agencies with fire management responsibilities, Federal agencies with fire-related responsibilities, GAO, Government Accountability Office, Interagency fire science coordination, NOAA AI research programs, NOAA Earth system forecasting, NOAA National Weather Service, NOAA and federal land management agencies, NOAA and interagency fire science coordination, NOAA and interagency wildfire risk coordination, NOAA data management, NOAA data systems, NOAA fire modeling programs, NOAA fire weather offices, NOAA fire weather program
AI Earth system model developers, AI professionals considering federal employment, AI weather technology companies
Academic fire research, Academic fire research institutions, Academic researchers
Emergency responders and land managers, Emergency response agencies, Federal, state, and local emergency response agencies
Public access to weather data, Public users of NOAA data, Public users of weather data
Positive-direction: Public users of NOAA data, Public users of weather data, Public weather forecast users, Weather data users
Negative-direction: Public access to weather data
International weather organizations
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
conditions influencing fuel, fire behavior, and smoke
conditions influencing wildfire start, spread, and behavior
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