; (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; (2) the term covered employee means an employee of the Forest Service or the Department of the Interior who is— (A) a wildland firefighter, as defined in section 5332a(a); or (B) certified by the applicable agency to perform wildland fire incident-related duties during the period that employee is deployed to respond to a qualifying incident; (3) the term incident response premium pay means pay to which a covered employee is entitled under subsection (c); (4) the term prescribed fire incident means a wildland fire originating from a planned ignition in accordance with applicable laws, policies, and regulations to meet specific objectives; (5) the term qualifying incident — (A) means— (i) a wildfire incident, a prescribed fire incident, or a severity incident; or (ii) an incident that the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior determines is similar in nature to an incident described in clause (i); and (B) does not include an initial response (including an initial attack fire) in which a wildfire is contained within 36 hours; and (6) the term severity incident means an incident in which a covered employee is pre-positioned in an area in which conditions indicate there is a high risk of wildfires. (b) Eligibility A covered employee is eligible for incident response premium pay under this section if— (1) the covered employee is deployed to respond to a qualifying incident; and (2) the deployment described in paragraph (1) is— (A) outside of the official duty station of the covered employee