Executive Order 13976: Establishing the Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee
President: Donald J. Trump
Created an interagency committee to recommend federal wildland-fire policy changes and required a report within 180 days.
Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13976 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13976 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.
What does Executive Order 13976 do?
EO 13976 created a committee chaired by the Agriculture and Interior Secretaries to examine wildfire prevention, suppression, land management and community resilience. It required recommendations within 180 days but granted no independent regulatory power. Congress later authorized a Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; that later commission issued a 2023 report and was legally distinct from the EO 13976 committee.
Later evidence reviewed September 27, 2026: A later statutory wildfire commission issued a report, but it was not the committee created by EO 13976. No public EO-committee report was located.
Before and after
Before the order
Wildland-fire policy was divided among Agriculture, Interior, FEMA and other agencies under existing statutes.
After the order
The order established a coordinating committee and report process.
A different commission, created by statute later in 2021, delivered comprehensive recommendations in 2023; reviewed sources did not establish public completion of the EO committee's own report.
Who had to do what
| Agency / office | Action | Timing / position |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Interior Secretaries | Co-chair the policy committee | During its work |
| Committee | Review policy and recommend changes | Within 180 days |
| Agencies | Implement any accepted changes under existing authority | Separate later action required |
What happened next
EO 13976 signed.
Published in the Federal Register.
Infrastructure law authorized a separate wildfire commission.
The two bodies and the absence of a located EO-committee report were documented.
Legal and source detail
How it works legally
EO 13976 coordinated executive advice; it did not amend land-management, environmental, emergency-management or appropriations law. The later statutory commission must be kept separate when describing implementation.
Sources by type
If a source is unavailable, first check the cited publisher or another official repository. The cited publisher remains the authority.
Primary and official sources
Orders, laws, court records and official implementation material.
How we checked this
Last checked against the sources above on September 27, 2026. How we research →