Bill > S1855

This bill establishes the Wildfire Emergency Act of 2021, which aims to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and reduction in the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire. Key provisions include: - Authorizing a pilot program with conservation finance agreement authority to leverage non-federal investment in landscape-scale forest restoration projects of at least 100,000 acres. - Requiring ecological standards and collaboration for these landscape-scale projects. - Providing funding for critical infrastructure and microgrid programs to improve energy resilience of critical facilities, weatherization assistance for fire-resilient communities, hazard mitigation using disaster assistance, and wildfire detection equipment. - Establishing western prescribed fire centers to train individuals in prescribed fire methods and other wildfire risk mitigation techniques, and an innovative forest workforce development program to assist in the development of forestry and fire management careers. - Creating a national community capacity and land stewardship grant program to support increasing community capacity, partnerships, and collaborations within and involving disadvantaged communities for land stewardship activities on national forests and grasslands.