Or. Admin. Code § 629-165-0010 - Additional Amount Not Considered Emergency Fire Suppression Costs
(1) Notwithstanding OAR 629-165-0005, it is a
policy of the committee that a district is expected to pay an amount of fire
suppression costs in addition to the pre-planned dispatch, before any costs are
considered emergency fire suppression costs. This additional amount in most
cases will be $25,000 per day or per fire as follows:
(a) If multiple fires occur on the same day
within a district, only one additional amount of $25,000 may be applied to the
sum of the costs of all the fires that began on that day.
(b) If any individual fire or group of fires
that began on the same day (or from the same lightning storm that continues
into a second day, at the discretion of the committee) burns past midnight, or
the suppression action continues for multiple days, only one additional amount
of $25,000 may be applied to the sum of the costs of those fires.
(c) If one fire or a group of fires begin on
one day and suppression action continues for multiple days, and then a new fire
or group of fires begin on a different day, an additional amount of $25,000 may
be applied to each day that new fires are ignited.
(2) The additional amount described in
section (1) may be modified or waived by the committee if conditions so
warrant. Conditions that may warrant modification or waiver include, but are
not limited to:
(a) The unencumbered balance
of the fund is determined to be in excess of the reserve base established in
ORS 477.760.
(b) A district
requesting waiver has over-expended the regular protection budget for the year
in which the waiver request is made.
(3) If the additional amounts described in
section (1) of this rule directly result in an increase in a district's annual
budget greater than fifteen cents per acre on timberland or six cents on
grazing land, the committee may waive that part in excess of these amounts. It
is the committee's intent that the maximum effect of section (1) of this rule
on a district budget will be limited to an additional fifteen cents per acre on
timberland and six cents per acre on grazing land.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 321, 477 & 477.770
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 183.335, 183.341, 477.440 - 477.460 & 477.750 - 477.775
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