Interagency data collaboration environment

(a) Expansion of information system (1) In general Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall expand the National Emergency Response Information System to include real-time information and analytics tools relating to the following: (A) Prescribed fires. (B) Wildfires that do not impact structures and infrastructure. (2) Manner The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall carry out the expansion under paragraph (1) in a manner compatible with, and shared with, existing wildland fire information collection at the Joint Office of the Fire Environment Center established under section 22005. (b) Wildfire Digital Data Center (1) Establishment The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall establish a data center to be known as the Wildfire Digital Data Center. The Wildfire Digital Data Center shall be a public, government, scientific research data catalog and repository available to assist in research by the wildfire community and to share relevant data. (2) Data and modeling collaboration environment The Wildfire Digital Data Center shall include a data and modeling collaboration environment for researchers across the wildfire community to engage with data across agencies and disciplines. (3) Public access The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall ensure the Wildfire Digital Data Center is in compliance with the guidance on public access policies as specified in the memorandum entitled Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research and issued by the Office of Science and Technology Policy on August 25, 2022. (4) Repository The repository of the Wildfire Digital Data Center shall include information on the following: (A) Outcomes and impacts of wildfire and associated management actions. (B) Real-time data on new fire starts. (C) The effectiveness of wildfire risk mitigation measures. (D) Public health research related to wildland fire and fires in the built environment. (5) Website The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to include on the publicly accessible website of the Wildfire Digital Data Center information relating to the following: (A) Post-wildfire impacts, and State and Federal programs and funding opportunities to address such impacts. (B) State and Federal best practices relating to the short- and long-term mitigation of wildfire. (C) Ecological recovery, assessment science, and State and Federal emergency declaration processes, with respect to wildfire. (6) Rule of construction Nothing in this section may be construed to affect the ownership of data sources by individual agencies. (c) Findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable requirement (1) In general The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration, the Secretary of the Interior, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Chief of the Forest Service, through the Wildfire Digital Data Center, the Department of the Interior Library, the National Emergency Training Center Library, and the National Forest Service Library, respectively, shall provide services to make federally funded wildland and structural fire research data systems and data products findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). (2) Integration The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration shall integrate the services required under paragraph (1) with the National Emergency Response Information System to better collect data and model the built environment. (d) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2036.