How are nonfederal partner resources and costs accounted for in the FPA analysis?
State and other nonfederal resources are included in modeling prevention, initial attack and suppression impact on fire behavior. If the costs of the nonfederal resources are covered by federal agencies’ budgets, they will be included when developing the federal agencies’ budget requests for approval by Congress. TOP Is FPA still only analyzing federal lands? Are non-federal lands that are being primarily protected by a federal agency as part of a “balance of acres” suppression agreement, or receiving federal funds through a grants program to conduct fuel hazard reduction treatmens, being included in the FPA fuels module? No, FPA is analyzing all land of participating agencies (including states) within the FPU. If federal funds are used on non-federal land for fuel treatments or “balance of acres” agreements, those acres and costs are included in the modelign process. FPA does not model non-federal lands treated using grant money because the focus is on FPU fire management budgets. TOP
