Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act

This section says the Act may be called the "Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act." This is just the Act's official short name and does not create any requirement on its own.

This section would require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study covering three topics. First, the study must identify existing federal programs, rules, and legal authorities that either allow or block wildfire mitigation work when that work needs to cross the boundary between federal land and non-federal land. Second, for any program, rule, or authority identified in the first topic, the study must determine whether changing it would give increased capacity or increased access to funding to mitigate wildfires to each of the following: federal land management agencies (using the definition of that term 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. Third, the study must examine the activities carried out under subsection (e) of section 103 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6513), and within that third topic must also cover how to improve how well those activities mitigate wildfire, and whether that existing subsection has actually increased federal land management agencies' and states' access to funding for wildfire mitigation. Not later than 2 years after this Act is enacted, the Comptroller General would have to submit a report to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. That report must contain the results of the study and recommendations to simplify cross-boundary wildfire mitigation between federal land management agencies and state, local, and tribal governments.