To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to jointly develop a strategy to increase the use of aquatic restoration and conservation activities in wildfire risk mitigation and post-fire recovery efforts, and for other purposes.

HR10916 was introduced in the House on October 26, 2026, by Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO-2) and referred to the Committees on Natural Resources and Agriculture. The bill requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to develop a strategy to increase the use of aquatic restoration and conservation activities—such as wetland restoration, beaver dam analogs, and stream rehabilitation—in wildfire risk mitigation and post-fire recovery. No funding is authorized; the bill is purely a strategy-development mandate. As an early-stage referral, it faces a long legislative path: committee hearings, markup, floor votes in both chambers, and potential conference. The single cosponsor (Rep. Brittany Pettersen, also from Colorado) and lack of committee chair sponsorship indicate limited momentum. No companion bill in the Senate has been introduced. The bill does not directly regulate or fund any private entity, and its impact on agriculture-sector companies is negligible at this stage. Structural winners or losers cannot be identified because the strategy has not been developed, and no procurement or spending is authorized. The timeline for any market-relevant action is likely years away, if the bill advances at all.