Definitions

In this Act: (1) Admitted; alien The terms admitted and alien have the meanings given those terms in section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)). (2) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. (3) Foreign person The term foreign person means an individual or entity that is not a United States person. (4) Government of canada The term Government of Canada means— (A) the Government of Canada and any political subdivision, agency, instrumentality, ministry, department, regulatory body, or other governmental authority thereof; (B) any person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the Government of Canada; and (C) any successor to an entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B). (5) Knowingly The term knowingly, with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, circumstance, or result. (6) Material transboundary smoke event The term material transboundary smoke event means the transportation by prevailing winds or other atmospheric conditions of wildfire smoke originating substantially within the territory of Canada into the United States in a concentration, duration, or geographic scope that— (A) causes or materially contributes to an exceedance of an applicable national ambient air-quality standard established under section 109 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7409); (B) results in an Air Quality Index category of Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in any area of the United States; (C) causes the issuance of a public-health advisory by a Federal, State, local, or Tribal authority; or (D) otherwise causes significant adverse effects on public health, safety, transportation, commerce, agriculture, recreation, or the environment in the United States. (7) Person The term person means an individual or entity. (8) Responsible foreign person The term responsible foreign person means a foreign person determined under section 6(a) to be responsible for, complicit in, or to have materially assisted conduct relating to material transboundary smoke events. (9) United states person The term United States person means— (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the United States; or (B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States, including a foreign branch of such an entity. (10) Wildfire smoke The term wildfire smoke means airborne particulate matter, gases, or other pollutants emitted by a wildfire, prescribed fire, peat fire, forest fire, grassland fire, or other uncontrolled or inadequately controlled vegetation fire.