; (2) Forest Service’s 10-year Wildfire Crisis Strategy (or successor plan); and (3) Department of the Interior’s Wildfire Risk Five-Year Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan (or successor plan). (g) Relation to the national environmental policy act of 1969 The development and submission of the Assessment under subsection (a) shall not be subject to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ). 8506. Giant sequoia emergency response (a) Emergency response to protect giant sequoias (1) In general (A) Emergency determination Congress determines that— (i) an emergency exists on covered public lands and covered National Forest System lands that makes it necessary to carry out Protection Projects that take needed actions to respond to the threat of wildfires, insects, and drought to giant sequoias