[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR208.43]

[Page 519-520]
 
              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

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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.