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2		-	Union Calendar No. 142
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3	2		118THCONGRESS
4	3		1
5	4		STSESSION H. R. 369
6		-	[Report No. 118–178]
7	5		To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to conduct
8	6		research on public safety communication coordination standards among
9	7		wildland firefighters and fire management response officials.
10	8		IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
11	9		JANUARY17, 2023
12	10		Mrs. K
13	11		IMof California (for herself, Ms. STANSBURY, and Mr. NEGUSE) intro-
14	12		duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science,
15	13		Space, and Technology
16		-	S
17		-	EPTEMBER1, 2023
18		-	Additional sponsors: Ms. L
19		-	EGERFERNANDEZ, Mr. MIKEGARCIAof
20		-	California, and Mr. J
21		-	ACKSONof North Carolina
22		-	S
23		-	EPTEMBER1, 2023
24		-	Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
25		-	House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
26		-	[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
27		-	[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 17, 2023]
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31	14		A BILL
32	15		To require the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
33	16		nology to conduct research on public safety communica-
34	17		tion coordination standards among wildland firefighters
35	18		and fire management response officials.
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39	19		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
40	20		tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
41	21		SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
42	22		This Act may be cited as the ‘‘NIST Wildland Fire 4
43	23		Communications and Information Dissemination Act’’. 5
44		-	SEC. 2. RESEARCH ON WILDLAND FIRE COMMUNICATIONS 6
45		-	AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION. 7
46		-	(a) I
47		-	NGENERAL.— 8
48		-	(1) P
49		-	UBLIC SAFETY RESEARCH .—Not later than 9
50		-	60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 10
51		-	the Director, acting through the head of the Public 11
52		-	Safety and Communications Research Division and 12
53		-	in consultation with the Fire Research Division and 13
54		-	technology manufacturers, shall carry out research on 14
55		-	the following: 15
56		-	(A) Public safety communication coordina-16
57		-	tion standards among Federal, State, Tribal, 17
58		-	and local wildland firefighters, fire management 18
59		-	response officials, and member agencies. 19
60		-	(B) Improving and integrating existing 20
61		-	communications systems to transmit secure real- 21
62		-	time data, alerts, and advisories to and from fire 22
63		-	management response officials and wildland fire-23
64		-	fighters. 24
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	24	+	SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
	25	+	In this Act: 7
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	29	+	(1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 1
	30	+	the Director of the National Institute of Standards 2
	31	+	and Technology. 3
	32	+	(2) M
	33	+	EMBER AGENCY .—The term ‘‘member 4
	34	+	agency’’ means a member agency of the National 5
	35	+	Interagency Fire Center, including the Bureau of In-6
	36	+	dian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National 7
	37	+	Park Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 8
	38	+	Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, For-9
	39	+	est Service, United States Fire Administration, and 10
	40	+	the Department of Defense. 11
	41	+	(3) W
	42	+	ILDLAND FIREFIGHTER .—The term 12
	43	+	‘‘wildland firefighter’’ means any person who partici-13
	44	+	pates in wildland firefighting activities. 14
	45	+	(4) F
	46	+	IRE MANAGEMENT RESPONSE OFFI -15
	47	+	CIALS.—The term ‘‘fire management response offi-16
	48	+	cials’’ means regional fire directors, deputy regional 17
	49	+	fire directors, agency officials who directly oversee 18
	50	+	fire operations, fire management officers, and indi-19
	51	+	viduals serving on incident management teams. 20
	52	+	(5) T
	53	+	ECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURERS .—The term 21
	54	+	‘‘technology manufacturers’’ means companies that 22
	55	+	manufacture communications technologies used by 23
	56	+	Federal, State, Tribal, and local wildland fire au-24
	57	+	thorities. 25
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	61	+	SEC. 3. RESEARCH. 1
	62	+	(a) R
	63	+	EQUIREMENTTOCONDUCTRESEARCH ONPUB-2
	64	+	LICSAFETY.—Not later than 60 days after the date of 3
	65	+	the enactment of this Act, the Director, acting through 4
	66	+	the head of the Public Safety and Communications Re-5
	67	+	search Division and in consultation with the Fire Research 6
	68	+	Division and technology manufacturers, shall carry out re-7
	69	+	search on— 8
	70	+	(1) public safety communication coordination 9
	71	+	standards among Federal, State, Tribal, and local 10
	72	+	wildland firefighters, fire management response offi-11
	73	+	cials, and member agencies; and 12
	74	+	(2) improving and integrating existing commu-13
	75	+	nications systems to transmit secure real-time data, 14
	76	+	alerts, and advisories to fire management response 15
	77	+	officials and wildland firefighters. 16
	78	+	(b) R
	79	+	EQUIREMENTTOCONDUCTFIELDTESTING OF 17
	80	+	I
	81	+	NFORMATIONDISSEMINATION AND TECHNOLOGY.—The 18
	82	+	Public Safety and Communications Research Division, in 19
	83	+	consultation with the Fire Research Division and member 20
	84	+	agencies, will conduct both live and virtual field testing 21
	85	+	of equipment, software, and other technologies to deter-22
	86	+	mine current times of information dissemination and de-23
	87	+	velop standards for the delivery of real-time data among 24
	88	+	member agencies, fire management response officials, and 25
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68		-	(2) FIELD TESTING AND MEASUREMENT OF IN -1
69		-	FORMATION DISSEMINATION AND TECHNOLOGY .—The 2
70		-	Public Safety and Communications Research Divi-3
71		-	sion, in consultation with the Fire Research Division 4
72		-	and member agencies, shall conduct both live and vir-5
73		-	tual field testing of equipment, software, and other 6
74		-	technologies to determine current times of information 7
75		-	dissemination and develop standards for the delivery 8
76		-	of useful and secure real-time data among member 9
77		-	agencies, fire management response officials, and 10
78		-	wildland firefighters, based on findings from research 11
79		-	under subsection (a). 12
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	92	+	wildland firefighters based on findings from research 1
	93	+	under subsection (a). 2
	94	+	SEC. 4. RECOMMENDATIONS. 3
	95	+	(a) R
	96	+	EQUIREMENTTODEVELOP ANDPROVIDEREC-4
	97	+	OMMENDATIONS.—The Director shall develop and publish 5
	98	+	recommendations for member agencies to improve public 6
	99	+	safety communication coordination standards among 7
	100	+	wildland first responders and fire management response 8
	101	+	officials. 9
80	102		(b) R
81		-	ECOMMENDATIONS.— 13
82		-	(1) I
83		-	N GENERAL.—The Director shall develop 14
84		-	and publish recommendations to improve public safe-15
85		-	ty communication coordination standards among 16
86		-	wildland first responders and fire management re-17
87		-	sponse officials. 18
88		-	(2) T
89		-	RANSMITTAL.—The Director shall transmit 19
90		-	the recommendations under paragraph (1) to the Of-20
91		-	fice of Management and Budget and the Office of 21
92		-	Science and Technology Policy for member agencies to 22
93		-	implement. 23
94		-	(3) R
95		-	EPORTING REQUIREMENTS .— 24
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	103	+	EQUIREMENTTOPROVIDERECOMMENDATIONS 10
	104	+	TO THEOFFICE OFMANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, THEOF-11
	105	+	FICE OFSCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGYPOLICY, ANDMEM-12
	106	+	BERAGENCIES.—The Director shall provide recommenda-13
	107	+	tions to the Office of Management and Budget and the 14
	108	+	Office of Science and Technology Police to assist member 15
	109	+	agencies with the implementation of the recommendations 16
	110	+	in subsection (a). 17
	111	+	SEC. 5. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 18
	112	+	(a) R
	113	+	EQUIREMENTTOREPORTRESEARCHFINDINGS 19
	114	+	ANDRECOMMENDATIONS .—The Director shall provide the 20
	115	+	recommendations published under section 4(a) to the 21
	116	+	House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and 22
	117	+	the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-23
	118	+	portation. 24
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99		-	(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall sub-1
100		-	mit to the Committee on Science, Space, and 2
101		-	Technology of the House of Representatives and 3
102		-	the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 4
103		-	Transportation of the Senate a report containing 5
104		-	the recommendations published under paragraph 6
105		-	(1). 7
106		-	(B) I
107		-	MPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 1 8
108		-	year after the date of the publication of the Di-9
109		-	rector’s recommendations under paragraph (1), 10
110		-	the Comptroller General of the United States 11
111		-	shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, 12
112		-	and Technology of the House of Representatives 13
113		-	and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 14
114		-	Transportation of the Senate a report on the ex-15
115		-	tent to which member agencies have implemented 16
116		-	such recommendations. 17
117		-	(c) F
118		-	UNDING.—From amounts made available to the 18
119		-	National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Direc-19
120		-	tor shall allocate $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 20
121		-	through 2028 to carry out this section. 21
122		-	(d) D
123		-	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 22
124		-	(1) D
125		-	IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means the 23
126		-	Director of the National Institute of Standards and 24
127		-	Technology. 25
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131		-	(2) MEMBER AGENCY.—The term ‘‘member agen-1
132		-	cy’’ means a member agency of the National Inter-2
133		-	agency Fire Center, including the Bureau of Indian 3
134		-	Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Park 4
135		-	Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-5
136		-	tration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Serv-6
137		-	ice, United States Fire Administration, and the De-7
138		-	partment of Defense. 8
139		-	(3) W
140		-	ILDLAND FIREFIGHTER .—The term 9
141		-	‘‘wildland firefighter’’ means any person who partici-10
142		-	pates in wildland firefighting activities. 11
143		-	(4) F
144		-	IRE MANAGEMENT RESPONSE OFFICIALS .— 12
145		-	The term ‘‘fire management response officials’’ means 13
146		-	regional fire directors, deputy regional fire directors, 14
147		-	agency officials who directly oversee fire operations, 15
148		-	fire management officers, and individuals serving on 16
149		-	incident management teams. 17
150		-	(5) T
151		-	ECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURERS .—The term 18
152		-	‘‘technology manufacturers’’ means private sector en-19
153		-	tities that manufacture communications technologies 20
154		-	used by Federal, State, Tribal, or local wildland fire 21
155		-	authorities. 22
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161		-	TH
162		-	CONGRESS
163		-	1
164		-	ST
165		-	S
166		-	ESSION
167		-
168		-	H. R. 369
169		-	[Report No. 118–178]
170		-	A BILL
171		-	To require the National Institute of Standards and
172		-	Technology to conduct research on public safety
173		-	communication coordination standards among
174		-	wildland firefighters and fire management re-
175		-	sponse officials.
176		-	S
177		-	EPTEMBER
178		-	1, 2023
179		-	Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
180		-	mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
181		-	and ordered to be printed
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	122	+	(b) REQUIREMENTTOREPORT ON THEIMPLEMEN-1
	123	+	TATION OFRECOMMENDATIONS .—Not later than 1 year 2
	124	+	after the date of the publication of the Director’s rec-3
	125	+	ommendations, the Government Accountability Office 4
	126	+	shall produce a report on the extent to which member 5
	127	+	agencies have implemented the Director’s recommenda-6
	128	+	tions. 7
	129	+	SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 8
	130	+	There are authorized to be appropriated to the Na-9
	131	+	tional Institute of Standards and Technology $3,000,000 10
	132	+	for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 to carry out 11
	133	+	this section. 12
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