S. 2033 — what changed

Study required— The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on—

the existing Federal programs, rules, and authorities that enable or inhibit wildfire mitigation from being completed across land ownership boundaries on Federal and non-Federal land;

whether changes to any program, rule, or authority identified pursuant to paragraph (1) would allow Federal land management agencies (as defined in section 802 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6801)), the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Fire Administration, States, local governments, and Tribal governments increased capacity or access to funding to mitigate wildfires; and

the activities carried out pursuant to subsection (e) of section 103 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6513), including—

how to improve the efficacy of such activities with respect to mitigating wildfire; and

whether the enactment of such subsection has increased the access of Federal land management agencies and States to funding to mitigate wildfires.

the results of the study required under subsection (a); and

recommendations to simplify cross-boundary wildfire mitigation between Federal land management agencies and State, local, and Tribal governments.