C – Could contain a technology component as part of a larger program.

 Authority

Washington Military Department, Emergency Management Division

Summary

The federally funded Fire Management Assistance Grant Program (FMAGP) provides financial assistance to state, local, and federally recognized tribal governments for the mitigation, management, and control of fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands. A federal fire management assistance declaration may be requested and issued for an uncontrolled fire when a threat of a major disaster exists. All eligible work and related costs must be associated with the federally approved incident period of a declared fire. The work performed must be the legal responsibility of the applicant, required as a result of the declared fire, and located within the designated area (except for pre-positioning costs). Eligible costs include those for the following items: (1) Equipment and Supplies; (2) Labor; (3) Travel and Per Diem; (4) Pre-positioning Costs; (5) Emergency Work / Emergency Protective Measures; (6) Temporary repair of damage caused by firefighting activities. Costs not directly associated with the incident period are ineligible. Ineligible costs include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Costs incurred in the mitigation, management, and control of undeclared fires; (2) Costs related to planning, pre-suppression activities (i.e., cutting fire-breaks without the presence of an imminent threat, training, road widening), and recovery (i.e., land rehabilitation activities, such as seeding, planting, and erosion control, salvage of timber or other materials, and restoration of facilities damaged by fire). Tree replacement is an ineligible cost; (3) Costs for the straight or regular time salaries and benefits of an applicant’s permanently employed or reassigned personnel; (4) Time and costs expended by volunteer labor, which by nature is offered on a donated basis and is not bound by contract or employment terms; (5) Costs for mitigation, management, and control of a declared fire on co-mingled federal land, when such costs are reimbursable to the state by a federal agency under another statute; (6) Planning actions such as risk assessments or pre-planned non-field training; (7) Costs incurred fighting fires on federal land; (8) Costs not supported by documentation; (9) Costs for standby equipment. FEMA will only reimburse costs for equipment when in use; and, (10) Costs for permanent repairs.

 History of Funding

None is available.

Additional Information

The Washington State Fire Management Assistance Grant Application Manual can be found at: http://www.emd.wa.gov/grants/documents/grants_FMAG_2010ApplicantManual.pdf.

 Contacts Name:

Department: Washington Military Department, Emergency Management Division

Company: Fire Management Program

Address: Bldg 20-B, MS: TA-20

Camp Murray, WA 98430

City/State/Zip US

Telephone (253) 512-7405

Fax (253) 512-7405

Email c.polit@emd.wa.gov

URL http://www.emd.wa.gov/grants/grants_fmagp.shtml

(Source: Emergency Management – http://www.emergencymgmt.com)