Official Summaries

Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025

This bill requires the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to (1) jointly evaluate the container aerial firefighting system to assess its use to mitigate and suppress wildfires, and (2) report on the results of the evaluation to Congress.

The system allows for the use of airdrop-capable disposable containers of water or fire retardant in order to increase the number of airlift assets available for wildfire emergencies.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 836 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 836


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 6 (legislative day, February 5), 2025

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To require the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of 
  the Forest Service, and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an 
evaluation with respect to the use of the container aerial firefighting 
                system (CAFFS), and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Wildfire Fighting 
Technology Act of 2025''.

SEC. 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 5, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.