Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Wildfire and Community Health Response Act of 2020”.
Wildfire and Community Health Response Act of 2020
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to jointly report to Congress on certain efforts to address the COVID–19 pandemic, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Report on wildfire risk during COVID–19 pandemic
First report— Not later than May 31, 2020, the Secretaries concerned shall jointly submit to Congress a report on—
the activities that the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, respectively, have carried out, are carrying out, or will carry out to—
mitigate wildfire risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, including activities to minimize the impact of wildfires on the respiratory health of communities;
identify methods of fuels reduction used during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize the threat of wildfire on National Forest System lands and public lands; and
slow the spread of COVID–19 between firefighters and emergency response teams; and
the recommendations of the Secretaries concerned with respect to the Federal support necessary to carry out the activities described in paragraph (1).
Second report— Not later than December 31, 2020, the Secretaries concerned shall jointly submit to Congress a report on—
the activities and recommendations described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a); and
the outcomes of the forest and wildfire management in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the recommendations of the Secretaries with respect to such outcomes.
Secretaries concerned defined— In this section, the term Secretaries concerned means—
the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System lands; and
the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public lands.