Adds prescribed fires and similar wildfire-risk reduction work to the Clean Air Act rules that let states exclude certain pollution events from air quality determinations.

• Expands the Clean Air Act's exceptional events rules to cover actions to mitigate wildfire risk, defined as prescribed fires or similar measures undertaken under State-approved practices.
• Narrows the definition of exceptional event to natural events and certain human activities, and excludes ordinary air stagnation, meteorological inversions, and pollution from source noncompliance.
• Requires EPA to revise the related regulations within 18 months of enactment and to maintain a public website tracking petitions, updated monthly.
• Requires EPA to conduct regional modeling when multiple States petition over the same multistate air quality event.

• Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
• Environment Subcommittee
• Environment and Public Works Committee (Senate)

Environmental Protection