Wildland fire performance metrics

(a) In general Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on existing key performance indicators and potential outcome-based performance measures to reduce wildfire risk on Federal land. (b) Inclusions The report submitted under subsection (a) shall identify solutions to track the implementation and effectiveness of hazardous fuels reduction activities and forest restoration treatments, including strategies— (1) to track whether land management activities are reducing wildfire hazards and ways to quantify and track acres in maintenance status; (2) to track place-based and locally led outcomes; (3) to standardize national-level monitoring measures; (4) to quantify catastrophic wildfire risk reduction; (5) to quantify carbon sequestration and climate resilience; (6) to quantify forest biodiversity and wildfire resilience, including as related to— (A) recreational services; (B) watershed conditions; (C) soil health and productivity; (D) fish and wildlife habitat; (E) water quantity and quality protection; and (F) late successional ecosystems. (7) to identify modeling and data challenges that are preventing the transition to annual wildfire risk mapping updates; and (8) to integrate advanced technologies or a combination of technologies and analyses that will benefit the quality of information reported. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; (B) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate; (C) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and (D) the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives. (2) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service.