The director, with the approval of the Director of General Services, may enter into a master agreement with federal land management agencies to conduct joint prescribed burning operations on wild lands and federal lands where these operations serve the public interest and are beneficial to the state. This master agreement shall be known as the Multiagency Agreement for Cooperative Use of Prescribed Fire and shall establish guidelines for the cooperative management of joint prescribed burning operations. The master agreement shall require the completion of a project agreement for each individual prescribed burn which shall include the following:
(a) A list of all participants.
(b) A joint prescribed burn plan.
(c) A display of the project costs to be assumed by each participant.
(d) A summary of the benefits to be received by each participant.
(e) An apportionment of suppression cost to each participant in the event a wildfire escapes from the project.
Project costs to be assumed by each agency or cooperator shall be based on the benefits received by each participant. The apportionment of suppression cost shall be based on the following:
(1) The benefits received by each participant.
(2) The amount at risk of each participant.
(3) The cost to produce the desired benefits received by each participant.
(4) The total acreage included by each participant.
(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 278, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2006.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018