§1748d Report on wildfire, insect infestation, and disease prevention on Federal land

Summary

Within 180 days after December 20, 2018, and every year after that, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior must send a joint report to four Congressional committees: the House Agriculture Committee, the House Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The report must say how many acres of Federal land were treated to prevent wildfires, insect infestations, or disease; how many acres are at high or extreme fire risk; total timber produced from Federal land; acres and average fire intensity of wildfires on treated versus untreated Federal land; federal response time for each fire over 25,000 acres; miles of roads and trails needing maintenance or decommissioning and the maintenance backlog as of the report date; and other actions needed to protect water quality and improve ecosystem function and resilience.