Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025 in plain language
1: Short title
This section would let the Act be officially called the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025 .
2: Container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS)
This section would require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, working together and in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, to conduct an evaluation of the container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS) within 90 days after the Act becomes law. The evaluation would assess how well the system works to reduce and put out wildfires. Within 120 days after the Act becomes law, the two Secretaries, again in consultation with the same two boards, would have to jointly submit a report containing the results of that evaluation to the appropriate committees. The section defines the appropriate committees as the House Committees on Agriculture and on Natural Resources, and the Senate Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and on Energy and Natural Resources.
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2. Container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS) (a) Evaluation Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, shall jointly conduct an evaluation of the container aerial firefighting system to assess the use of such system to mitigate and suppress wildfires. (b) Report Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees a report that includes the results of the evaluation required under subsection (a). (c) Appropriate committees defined In this section, the term appropriate committees means— (1) the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.