Are local resources eligible when they meet the pre-positioning definition and conditions?
No. Pre-positioned costs for local resources are not eligible. However, the cost of these resources is eligible when used to fight fires. How should pre-positioned costs be determined and documented for eligible resources in cases where the equipment portion of the resources continues to be pre-positioned, but the operating crew is rotated out and replaced by a fresh operator/crew? Equipment and operator pre-positioned costs are eligible. Actual cost for crews that are pre-positioned during the approved period is eligible.(This is a common practice for out-of-state engines and tractor-plows units.) How should pre-positioning costs be determined and documented for eligible resources that have different standby and working rates, when such resources were used on undeclared fires, but remained available to be redeployed to fires that threatened to become a major disaster? Only standby costs for pre-positioned resources used to fight declared fires are eligible. Resources that are actively
