All Roll Calls
Yes: 426 • No: 412
119-hr-6387119th Congress
FIRE Act
Sponsored By: Representative Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8]
Passed House
Summary
Improving how wildfire and prescribed‑burn air quality data are treated in federal air‑quality decisions. The bill expands and reorganizes the Clean Air Act's rules on "exceptional events" to include actions to mitigate wildfire risk and adds clearer criteria and procedures for when monitoring data can be considered or excluded from regulatory determinations.
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- State governors get an expanded petition route to ask the EPA to exclude monitoring data directly caused by an exceptional event or a wildfire‑mitigation action from decisions like area exceedances, designations, attainment findings, attainment date extensions, State implementation plan adequacy, and certain preconstruction demonstrations.
- The EPA Administrator must apply a clear causal‑relationship test, run regional modeling and analysis when multiple States are involved, and publish a public petition status website within 12 months with monthly updates.
- The bill broadens the definition of "exceptional event" to cover natural events, certain human activities that mirror natural events, and specified wildfire‑risk mitigation actions such as prescribed fires, while excluding ordinary stagnation, inversions, and pollution from noncompliance, to better preserve the integrity of National Ambient Air Quality Standards decisions.
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States could exclude wildfire smoke data
If enacted, Governors would be able to ask EPA to exclude some air‑monitoring data when wildfire smoke or a prescribed burn clearly caused a spike at a specific monitor. Actions to reduce wildfire risk would need to follow State‑approved practices. Petitions would need to show a clear causal link or a reasonable expectation of one. Exclusions would not be allowed for ordinary air stagnation, weather inversions, or pollution from noncompliant sources. Excluded data would not count for EPA decisions on area designations, whether an area is meeting a standard, or some preconstruction permits. If more than one State seeks an exclusion for the same event, EPA would run regional modeling and analysis. EPA would post petition status on a public website within 12 months and update it monthly. EPA would update its regulations within 18 months of enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8]
CO • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Gray, Adam [D-CA-13]
CA • D
Sponsored 12/9/2025
Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9]
AZ • R
Sponsored 12/9/2025
Rep. Crank, Jeff [R-CO-5]
CO • R
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 4/22/2026
On Motion to Recommit
Yes: 206 • No: 214
house vote • 4/22/2026
On Passage
Yes: 220 • No: 198