118 STAT. 3111 PUBLIC LAW 108–447—DEC. 8, 2004 account for fiscal year 2005, and the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit a joint report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives on such cost containment measures by December 31, 2005: Provided further, That Public Law 108–287, title X, chapter 3 is amended under the heading ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Wildland Fire Manage ment’’, by striking the phrases ‘‘for fiscal year 2004’’ and ‘‘related to the fiscal year 2004 fire season’’ in the text preceding the first proviso. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT For an additional amount for ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’, $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, for urgent wildland fire suppression activities pursuant to section 312 of S. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress) as made applicable to the House of Representatives by H. Res. 649 (108th Congress) and applicable to the Senate by section 14007 of Public Law 108–287: Provided, That such funds shall only become available if funds provided for wildland fire suppression in title II of this Act will be exhausted imminently and the Secretary of Agriculture notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the House and Senate Committees on the Budget in writing of the need for these additional funds: Provided further, That such funds are also avail able for repayment to other appropriation accounts from which funds were transferred for wildfire suppression: Provided further, That cost containment measures shall be implemented within this account for fiscal year 2005, and the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall submit a joint report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives on such cost containment measures by December 31, 2005: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish an independent cost control review panel to examine and report on fire suppression costs for individual wildfire incidents that exceed $10,000,000 in cost: Provided further, That if the inde pendent review panel report finds that appropriate actions were not taken to control suppression costs for one or more such wildfire incidents, then an amount equal to the aggregate estimated excess costs of suppressing those wildfire incidents shall be transferred to the Treasury from unobligated balances remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 in the Wildland Fire Management account: Provided further, That Public Law 108–287, title X, chapter 3 is amended under the heading ‘‘Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Wildland Fire Management’’, by striking the phrases ‘‘for fiscal year 2004’’ and ‘‘related to the fiscal year 2004 fire season’’ in the text preceding the first proviso. TITLE V SEC. 501. (a) ACROSS THE BOARD RESCISSIONS.—There is hereby rescinded an amount equal to 0.594 percent of— (1) the budget authority provided for fiscal year 2005 for any discretionary account in this Act; and Ante, p. 1012. Establishment. Reports. Reports. Deadline. Applicability. Applicability. Ante, p. 1012.
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