[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 44, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 44CFR208.43]



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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE

 

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

                                SECURITY

 

PART 208_NATIONAL URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE RESPONSE SYSTEM--

Table of Contents

 

                Subpart C_Response Cooperative Agreements

 

Sec.  208.43  Rehabilitation.



    DHS will reimburse costs incurred to return System equipment and 

personnel to a state of readiness following Activation as provided in 

this section.

    (a) Costs for Equipment Cache List items--(1) Non-consumable items. 

DHS will reimburse costs incurred to repair or replace any non-

consumable item on the Equipment Cache List that was lost, damaged, 

destroyed, or donated at DHS direction to another entity, during 

Activation. For each such item, the Sponsoring Agency must document, in 

writing, the circumstances of the loss, damage, destruction, or 

donation.

    (2) Consumable items. DHS will reimburse costs incurred to replace 

any consumable item on the Equipment Cache List that was consumed during 

Activation.

    (3) Personnel costs associated with equipment cache rehabilitation. 

DHS will reimburse costs incurred for the compensation, including 

benefits, payable for actual time worked by each person engaged in 

rehabilitating the equipment cache following Activation, in accordance 

with the standard pay policy of the Sponsoring Agency or Participating 

Agency and without regard to the provisions of Sec.  208.39(e)(1) of 

this part, up to the number of hours specified in the Demobilization 

Order. Fringe benefits are reimbursed under the provisions of Sec.  

208.40 of this part.

    (b) Costs for personnel rehabilitation. DHS will reimburse costs 

incurred for the compensation, including benefits and Backfill, of each 

Activated System Member regularly scheduled to work during the 

rehabilitation period specified in the Demobilization Order, in 

accordance with the standard pay policy of the Sponsoring Agency or 

Participating Agency and without regard to the provisions of Sec.  

208.39(e)(1) of this part.

    (c) Other allowable costs--(1) Local transportation. DHS will 

reimburse costs incurred for transporting Task Force Members from the 

point of assembly to the point of departure and from the point of return 

to the location where they are released from duty. DHS will also 

reimburse transportation costs incurred for assembling and moving the 

equipment cache from its usual place(s) of storage to the point of 

departure, and from the point of return to its usual place(s) of 

storage. Such reimbursement will include costs to return the means of 

transportation to its point of origin.

    (2) Ground transportation. When DHS orders a Sponsoring Agency to 

move its Task Force Members and equipment cache by ground 

transportation, DHS will reimburse costs incurred for such 

transportation, including but not limited to charges for contract 

carriers, rented vehicles, contract vehicle operators, fleet vehicles, 

fuel and associated transportation expenses. The Director has authority 

to issue schedules of maximum hourly or per mile reimbursement rates for 

fleet and contract vehicles.

    (3) Food and beverages. DHS will reimburse expenditures for food and 

beverages for Activated Task Force Members and Support Specialists when 

the Federal government does not provide meals during Activation. 

Reimbursement of food and beverage costs for Activated Support 

Specialists will be limited to periods of time during which they were 

actively supporting the Activation or traveling to or from locations at 

which they were actively supporting the Activation. Food and beverage 

reimbursement will be limited to the amount of the then-current Federal 

meals and incidental expenses daily allowance published in the Federal 

Register for the locality where such food and beverages were provided, 

multiplied by the number of personnel who received the same.