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Sec. 205 · S. 1462

Updated definition of at-risk community

Title II — Protecting communities in wildland-urban interface › Subtitle A — Community wildfire risk reduction

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Introduced → Committee version · Sec. 205

Section 101 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6511) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: (1) At-risk community The term at-risk community means an area that is composed of— (A) an interface community (as defined in the notice entitled Wildland Urban Interface Communities Within the Vicinity of Federal Lands That Are at High Risk From Wildfire (66 Fed. Reg. 753 (January 4, 2001)) issued by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with title IV of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (114 Stat. 1009)); (B) a group of homes and other structures with basic infrastructure and services (such as utilities and collectively maintained transportation routes) at risk from wildfire, as recognized in a fireshed, State, Tribal, local, regional, territorial, or national wildfire risk assessment; or (C) a group of homes and other structures with basic infrastructure and services (such as utilities and collectively maintained transportation routes) located inside, or within 5 miles of, a Wildfire Crisis Strategy landscape, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture..

•S 1462 RSSEC. 205

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