Areas of Interagency Collaboration Sample Clauses

Areas of Interagency Collaboration. Overall vision • The Agencies jointly recognize the importance of significantly increasing the application of prescribed fire in a strategic and coordinated manner to mitigate the risk of high severity fire and its associated smoke impacts. • The Agencies commit to work together under existing laws to clarify and align regulations, policy, and practice to promote the mutual objectives of protecting public health from the impacts of smoke and enabling land management practices, including prescribed fire, that may reduce the risk of future large, high severity fire events. • The Agencies jointly commit to invest in measures to protect the public from the adverse health impacts of wildland fire smoke, with an eye toward advancing health equity and targeting vulnerable populations. • Through joint projects, the Agencies will develop and document a shared understanding of how smoke from wildfire and prescribed fire is treated in Federal air quality management programs. • The Agencies will identify, improve, and implement opportunities to disseminate information and tools that facilitate public health communications, smoke mitigation, and community engagement. • The Agencies will improve activity tracking, smoke forecasting, and monitoring capabilities, and new technologies that will enable Federal agencies and other land management and public health partners to understand impacts, better inform and prepare communities for smoke events, and identify gaps in knowledge where research endeavors could further inform some of these activities. The Agencies will achieve this vision through the following: