; (2) shall be determined at the sole discretion of the applicable Secretary, after consultation with the other Secretary; (3) shall be basic pay for the same purposes as the wage rate otherwise established under section 5343 of such title; and (4) may not cause an employee’s wage rate to increase beyond a rate that would produce an annualized rate in excess of the annual rate of pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title. (c) Rescission The unobligated balance of amounts available under each of sections 50221 through 50224 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act ) are hereby permanently rescinded. (d) Wildland firefighter defined In this section, the term wildland firefighter means a firefighter— (1) who is employed by the Forest Service or the Department of the Interior; and (2) the duties of the position of whom primarily relate to fires occurring in forests, range lands, or other wildlands, as opposed to structural fires. 3. Wildland fire incident response premium pay (a) In general Subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 5545b the following: 5545c. Incident response premium pay for employees engaged in wildland firefighting (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; (B) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; (C) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate; (D) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; (E) the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives; (F) the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives; (G) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives; and (H) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives