A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for national mobilization of rural firefighting forces to deal with the mounting danger of wildfires in the urban-rural interface areas of the United States, and for other purposes.
National Fire Forces Mobilization Act of 1990 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations which shall be divided equally between State forestry agencies and rural volunteer fire departments and be used to improve their firefighting capacity and provide firefighting assistance to other firefighting organizations. Limits the Federal share of the cost of any activity of a State or rural volunteer fire department carried out with such funds to 50 percent.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
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