[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 44, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 44CFR204.43]



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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE

 

 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

                                SECURITY

 

PART 204_FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                          Subpart C_Eligibility

 

Sec. 204.43  Ineligible costs.



    Costs not directly associated with the incident period are 

ineligible. Ineligible costs include the following:

    (a) Costs incurred in the mitigation, management, and control of 

undeclared fires;

    (b) Costs related to planning, pre-suppression (i.e., cutting fire-

breaks without the presence of an imminent threat, training, road 

widening, and other similar activities), and recovery (i.e., land 

rehabilitation activities, such as seeding, planting operations, and 

erosion control, or the salvage of timber and other materials, and 

restoration of facilities damaged by fire);

    (c) Costs for the straight or regular time salaries and benefits of 

a subgrantee's permanently employed or reassigned personnel;

    (d) 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 (See 44 CFR part 51);

    (e) Fires fought on Federal land are generally the responsibility of 

the Federal Agency that owns or manages the land. Costs incurred while 

fighting fires on federally owned land are not eligible under the Fire 

Management Assistance Grant Program except as noted in Sec. 204.42(i).