Directs the Interior and Agriculture departments to expand prescribed fire on federal lands, creates a funded collaborative program for fire projects, and supports cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners.

• Requires federal land managers to increase prescribed fire acreage by at least 10 percent each year over the prior year for 10 fiscal years.
• Creates a Collaborative Prescribed Fire Program capped at $20 million in total funding per year and $1 million per project, authorized through fiscal year 2036.
• Allows cooperative agreements of up to 10 years with states, Tribes, counties, nonprofits, and private entities to conduct prescribed fires on federal land, and treats certain non-federal partners as federal employees for Federal Tort Claims Act purposes.
• Directs the EPA to help state and Tribal air agencies handle smoke rules, and directs the Secretaries to create career pathways for veterans and formerly incarcerated people and to support an Indigenous-led cultural burning training center.

• Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)

Public Lands and Natural Resources