H.R. 6387 FIRE Act - Air Quality Monitoring Wildfire Risk Amendments

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Union Calendar No. 515 H. R. 6387

119 CONGRESS TH2 ESSION

[Report No. 119-595]

To amend the Clean Air Act to require revisions to regulations governing the review and handling of air quality monitoring data influenced by exceptional events or actions to mitigate wildfire risk.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

3, 2025 ECEMBERMr. Eof Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to VANSthe Committee on Energy and Commerce A9, 2026 PRILAdditional sponsors: Mr. G, Mr. G , and Mr. C DRAY SOSAR DRANK A9, 2026 PRILCommitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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A BILL

To amend the Clean Air Act to require revisions to regula- tions governing the review and handling of air quality monitoring data influenced by exceptional events or ac- tions to mitigate wildfire risk.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3

This Act may be cited as the ''Fire Improvement and 4 Reforming Exceptional Events Act'' or the ''FIRE Act''. 5

SEC. 2. AIR QUALITY MONITORING DATA INFLUENCED BY 6 EXCEPTIONAL EVENTS OR ACTIONS TO MITI-7 GATE WILDFIRE RISK. 8

Section 319(b) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 9 7619(b)) is amended-- 10 (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ''O 11 R T M W R '' after 12CTIONS O ITIGATE ILDFIRE ISK ''E ''; 13VENTS (2) in paragraph (1)-- 14 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 15 ''D '' and in-16 AEFINITION OF EXCEPTIONAL EVENT serting ''D ''; 17 EFINITIONS (B) in subparagraph (A), by redesignating 18 clauses (i) through (iv), as subclauses (I) 19 through (IV), respectively; 20 (C) by striking ''(A)'' and all that follows 21 through ''an event that--'' and inserting the 22 following: 23 ''(A) E .-- 24 XCEPTIONAL EVENT

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''(i) I .--The term 'excep-1 N GENERAL tional event' means an event that--''; 2 (D) by amending subclause (III) of sub-3 paragraph (A)(i), as redesignated, to read as 4 follows: 5 ''(III) is an event that is-- 6 ''(aa) a natural event; 7 ''(bb) caused by a human 8 activity that is intended to mirror 9 the occurrence or reoccurrence of 10 a natural event; or 11 ''(cc) caused by a human ac-12 tivity that is unlikely to recur; 13 and''; 14 (E) by striking subparagraph (B) and in-15 serting the following: 16 ''(ii) E .--In this sub-17 XCLUSIONS section, the term 'exceptional event' does 18 not include-- 19 ''(I) ordinarily occurring stagna-20 tion of air masses; 21 ''(II) meteorological inversions; 22 or 23 ''(III) air pollution relating to 24 source noncompliance.''; and 25

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(F) by adding at the end the following: 1 ''(B) A 2 CTION TO MITIGATE WILDFIRE .--The term 'action to mitigate wildfire 3RISK risk' means a prescribed fire or similar meas-4 ure, undertaken in accordance with State ap-5 proved practices, to reduce the risk and severity 6 of wildfires.''; 7 (3) in paragraph (2)-- 8 (A) in subparagraph (A)-- 9 (i) by striking ''March 1, 2006'' and 10 inserting ''18 months after the date of en-11 actment of the FIRE Act''; 12 (ii) by inserting ''revisions to'' before 13 ''regulations''; and 14 (iii) by adding ''or actions to mitigate 15 wildfire risk'' before the period at the end; 16 (B) in subparagraph (B)-- 17 (i) by inserting ''including proposed 18 revisions to regulations,'' after ''subpara-19 graph (A),''; 20 (ii) by inserting ''or action to mitigate 21 wildfire risk'' after ''an exceptional event''; 22 and 23 (iii) by striking ''paragraph (3)'' and 24 inserting ''this section''; and 25

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(C) by adding at the end the following: 1 ''(C) R .--When more 2 EGIONAL ANALYSIS than one State notifies the Administrator of its 3 intent to submit a petition pursuant to this sec-4 tion for an exceptional event or an action to 5 mitigate wildfire risk for the same air quality 6 event, or, if the Administrator determines such 7 a multistate air quality event has occurred, the 8 Administrator shall conduct regional modeling 9 and analysis sufficient to satisfy the demonstra-10 tion required for an exceptional event or an ac-11 tion to mitigate wildfire risk petition for such 12 air quality event. 13 ''(D) T .--Not later than 12 14 RANSPARENCY months after the date of enactment of the 15 FIRE Act, the Administrator shall establish, 16 and thereafter update monthly, a public website 17 describing the status of all petitions submitted 18 pursuant to this section for exceptional events 19 and actions to mitigate wildfire risk.''; 20 (4) in paragraph (3)(A)-- 21 (A) by redesignating clauses (ii) through 22 (v) as clauses (iii) through (vi), respectively; 23 and 24

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(B) by inserting after clause (i) the fol-1 lowing: 2 ''(ii) the principle that actions to miti-3 gate wildfire risk can play an important 4 role in reducing the magnitude and fre-5 quency of wildfires;''; 6 (5) in paragraph (3)(B)-- 7 (A) in clause (i), by inserting ''or action to 8 mitigate wildfire risk'' before ''must be''; 9 (B) by amending clause (ii) to read as fol-10 lows: 11 ''(ii) a clear causal relationship must 12 exist, or be reasonably expected to exist, 13 between the measured exceedances of a na-14 tional ambient air quality standard and the 15 exceptional event or action to mitigate 16 wildfire risk to demonstrate that the excep-17 tional event or action to mitigate wildfire 18 risk caused a specific air pollution con-19 centration at a particular air quality moni-20 toring location;''; and 21 (C) by amending clause (iv) to read as fol-22 lows: 23 ''(iv) there are criteria and procedures 24 for the Governor of a State to petition the 25

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Administrator to exclude air quality moni-1 toring data that is directly due to excep-2 tional events or actions to mitigate wildfire 3 risk from use in determinations by the Ad-4 ministrator with respect to-- 5 ''(I) area or source exceedances 6 or violations of the national ambient 7 air quality standards; 8 ''(II) the designation, redesigna-9 tion, classification, or reclassification 10 of an area; 11 ''(III) the demonstration by a 12 State of attainment of a national am-13 bient air quality standard; 14 ''(IV) attainment determinations; 15 ''(V) attainment date extensions; 16 ''(VI) finding a State implemen-17 tation plan to be inadequate; or 18 ''(VII) preconstruction dem-19 onstrations under section 165(a)(3).''; 20 and 21 (6) by striking paragraph (4). 22

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To amend the Clean Air Act to require revisions to 119Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the tional events or actions to mitigate wildfire risk. air quality monitoring data influenced by excep-regulations governing the review and handling of 2 ATHState of the Union and ordered to be printed D CONGRESS S ESSION H. R. 6387 A BILL [Report No. 119-595]

Union Calendar No. PRIL

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