<p><strong>Accurately Counting Risk Elimination Solutions Act or the ACRES Act</strong></p><p>This bill establishes requirements regarding&nbsp;reports&nbsp;about hazardous fuels reduction activities and&nbsp;standardized procedures for tracking data for hazardous fuels reduction. <em>Hazardous fuels reduction activities</em> means any vegetation management activities that reduce the risk of wildfire but excludes the award of contracts to conduct hazardous fuels reduction activities.</p><p>First, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior must include in the materials submitted in support of the President's budget each fiscal year a report on the number of acres of federal land on which such activities were carried out during the preceding year.</p><p>Next, USDA and Interior must implement standardized procedures for tracking data related to such activities. The standardized procedures must include</p><ul><li>regular, standardized data reviews of the accuracy and timely input of data used to track hazardous fuels reduction activities;</li><li>verification methods that validate whether such data accurately correlates to such activities;</li><li>an analysis of the short- and long-term effectiveness of such activities on reducing the risk of wildfire; and</li><li>for hazardous fuels reduction activities that occur partially within the wildland-urban interface, methods to distinguish which acres are located within and which located outside the wildland-urban interface.</li></ul><p>Finally, the Government Accountability Office must (1) conduct a study on this bill's implementation, and (2) submit a report to Congress with the results of the study.</p>