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“The FAA should study whether approved counter-drone tools, used by authorized groups, could detect, reduce, or stop drone incursions during wildfire response.”
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“Aircraft sold for wildfire response should be allowed to drop either water or fire retardant when fighting wildfires.”
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“Federal agencies should be able to carry out wildfire risk projects in fireshed areas, including tree thinning, planned burns, fuel breaks, dangerous-tree removal, spraying, reseeding, grazing, and work named in local fire plans.”
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“Some wildfire, forest health, hazard tree, and fireshed projects should move faster through planning, environmental review, and lawsuits, including larger projects that can skip full review and limits on restarting some endangered species reviews for older land-use plans.”
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“The Agriculture and Interior Departments should study whether CAFFS, a container-based aerial firefighting system, can help slow or put out wildfires before federal agencies are asked to buy, test, deploy, or use it.”
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“The FAA should study drones flown inside wildfire airspace the FAA has temporarily closed when those flights affect firefighting on lands managed by Interior or the Forest Service.”
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“The Agriculture and Interior departments should study whether CAFFS could help slow down and put out wildfires, and should get input from federal aviation and air tanker experts during the study.”
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“Federal agencies should map high-risk wildfire areas, assess what work is needed, set project goals and schedules, let the public comment, show project information online, keep forest plans updated, and report fuel-reduction results more clearly.”
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“People challenging some fireshed or forest projects should face shorter filing deadlines and narrower court options, including limits on when courts can stop work after finding legal problems.”
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“The FAA should count drone incursions that interfered with wildfire fighting during the five most recent years and estimate whether each incident delayed firefighting aircraft, made suppression take longer, or increased federal spending.”
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“Covered wildfire workers should get paid recovery time after qualifying fire deployments, use that time right away instead of saving or cashing it out, and work under shared agency policies that can limit deployment length, require rest days, or cap average hours.”
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“Covered federal wildland firefighters should receive permanent higher base pay, with fixed percentage raises for GS workers that are largest at lower grades and agency-set raises for certain wage-grade workers, subject to a federal pay cap.”
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“Federal agencies should expand planned burns by funding training, staffing, public outreach, partner agreements, cross-boundary burns, liability training and coverage for some participants, smoke coordination with air-quality officials, and larger landscape burn plans.”
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“The FAA should study whether public education materials could help people understand that flying drones near wildfires can disrupt firefighting operations.”
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“Federal land agencies should create standard wildfire fuel data procedures within 90 days and regularly check that the data is entered on time, accurate, and tied to real fuel reduction work on the ground.”
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“The Department of Defense should be able to keep selling eligible aircraft and aircraft parts for wildfire suppression for 10 years, from October 1, 2025, through October 1, 2035.”
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“Utilities should inspect power lines, manage trees and brush near electric facilities, and maintain safer power-line corridors in fire-prone areas to reduce the chance that electrical equipment starts or worsens a wildfire.”
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“Utilities and federal agencies should be able to move faster on vegetation work near power lines on federal land, including review deadlines, a faster NEPA path for routine clearing, and safer electrical corridors to reduce wildfire risk.”
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“Covered wildfire workers should receive extra daily deployment pay equal to 4.5 hours of basic pay, with a $9,000 yearly cap, a lower daily limit for higher-paid workers, and no increase to benefit, leave, injury-pay, or overtime calculations.”
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“Federal land managers should be able to reduce wildfire risk in fireshed areas by thinning trees, using controlled fire, building fuel breaks, removing dangerous trees, treating pests and invasive plants, restoring burned land, and using livestock grazing where appropriate.”
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“Aircraft sold through the federal wildfire aircraft sales authority should be used only for wildfire suppression services, not unrelated commercial work or other public missions.”
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“The federal government should move wildfire aid faster and cover more of the damage that happens after a fire.”
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“Fire departments that help with wildfire response should get clearer support for covered repayment issues, and families of wildland firefighters and support workers killed or critically injured on duty should receive federal casualty assistance.”
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“A national center should help agencies and partners use wildfire risk maps and planning tools, and a public website should show fireshed areas, planned projects, progress, and review timelines.”
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“The federal government should build stronger smoke alerts, wildfire maps, and shared data systems to guide fire and health decisions.”
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“Federal agencies should report what kind of wildfire fuel reduction work was done, whether it was part of a managed wildfire or a planned project, and how much the work cost per treated acre.”
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“The federal government should give clear, organized help to families when a wildland firefighter or support worker is badly hurt, becomes seriously ill, or dies on duty.”
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