As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 13, 2023
Congressional Budget Office, Cost Estimate–August 10, 2023.
Summary:
H.R. 3389 would require the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior to evaluate the system that uses airplanes to drop containers of water and other fire retardants on wildfires. The bill also would require those departments to report their results to the Congress within 120 days of enactment.
Using information from the affected agencies, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost a little more than $500,000 and round to $1 million in 2024; any spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an evaluation with respect to the use of the container aerial firefighting system (CAFFS), and for other purposes
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