HR 8449 · 117th Congress · Science, Technology, Communications
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2022
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Introduced2
Committee3
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7489)(2022-07-29)
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Fire Ready Nation Act of 2022 This bill establishes fire weather programs and activities to improve fire forecasting and readiness. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shall establish a coordinated fire weather services program within NOAA to support readiness, responsiveness, and overall resilience of the United States to wildfires, fire weather, smoke, and other associated conditions, hazards, and impacts in built and natural environments (including at the wildland-urban interface); develop a comprehensive, centralized, and publicly accessible digital presence designed to promote usability of the services, tools, data, and information produced by the program; develop services that provide public access to digital fire weather data and information; seek to acquire sufficient high-performance computing resources and capacity for research, operations, and data storage in support of the program; establish a fire weather testbed to evaluate the accuracy and usability of technology, models, fire weather products and services, and other research to accelerate the implementation and use of new capabilities by NOAA, federal and land management agencies, and other re…
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