David Valadao: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment, as modified. The text of the…”

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment, as modified. The text of the amendment, as modified, is as follows: AMENDMENT NO. 3, AS MODIFIED, OFFERED BY MR. VALADAO OF CALIFORNIA At the end of Title III add the following: SEC. 307 CONTAINER AERIAL FIREFIGHTING SYSTEM (CAFFS). (a) Evaluation.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, shall jointly conduct an evaluation of the container aerial firefighting system to assess the use of such system to mitigate and suppress wildfires. (b) Report.--Not Later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the National Interagency Aviation Committee and the Interagency Airtanker Board, shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees a report that includes the results of the evaluation required under subsection (a). (c) Appropriate Committees Defined.--In this section, the term ``appropriate committees'' means--(1) the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. The Acting CHAIR.…”