Skip to main content
S 561 111th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Accounting and auditing Advisory bodies Congressional oversight Disaster relief and insurance Electric power generation and transmission Emergency planning and evacuation Fires Forests, forestry, trees Government information and archives Government trust funds Parks, recreation areas, trails Water quality Water use and supply Watersheds

FLAME Act

Introduced: March 10, 2009 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 21, 2009
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Mar 10, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mar 10, 2009
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act or FLAME Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Fund (Flame Fund). Requires amounts in the Flame Fund to be made available to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretaries) to pay the costs of catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities that are separate from amounts annually appropriated for the predicted annual workload for such activities.

Makes amounts in the Flame Fund available to the Secretaries only after such Secretaries issue a declaration that a wildland fire suppression activity is eligible for funding through the Fund.

Directs such Secretaries to establish an accounting and reporting system for the Flame Fund.

Requires such Secretaries to: (1) report annually to Congress on the use of the funds from the Flame Fund, together with recommendations to improve administrative control and oversight of the Fund; and (2) submit a report to Congress that contains a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, consistent with the recommendations of Comptroller General reports.

Requires the Secretaries to conduct a review of wildfires for which expenses exceeding $10 million were incurred.

Authorizes the Secretaries to make grants to fire-ready communities, as defined by this Act, to carry out activities to reduce risks from wildfires.

What's happening now July 21, 2009

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1