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Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-01-16Topic: public safety

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025 This bill requires the U.S. Geological Survey to establish a competitive grant program to fund satellite monitoring of wildfires. The entities eligible to receive the grants are state foresters, emergency managers, and equivalent state officials. Grant recipients must use the funds for purchasing and integrating satellite data on wildfire monitoring and for using the data to detect and manage wildfires.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-01-16HouseReferred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.refer
2025-01-16Introduced in Houseintroduce
2025-01-16Introduced in Houseintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-10-16. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.