§551d Wildland Firefighter Safety

Summary

Requires the Secretaries to send Congress one joint report each year about how they keep wildland firefighters safe. "Secretaries" means the Secretary of the Interior acting through the directors of the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Secretary of Agriculture acting through the Chief of the Forest Service. "Wildland firefighter" means anyone fighting wildland fires under those Secretaries’ direction or under a contract or compact with a federally recognized Indian tribe. The report must cover the prior calendar year and be sent by March of the next year. It must describe safety and training practices and any changes, give statistics and trends, estimate federal spending on these safety efforts, report progress on implementing recommendations from the Inspector General, GAO, OSHA, or agency reports about firefighting fatalities from the last 10 years, and explain safety rules in contracts with non‑federal groups, actions to enforce them, and the results.