[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR211.5]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 211_ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart A_Cooperation
 
Sec. 211.5  Emergency fire suppression assistance.

    (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this subpart these definitions 
apply:
    (1) Prescribed fire means a fire burning under a set of specified 
conditions

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which will accomplish certain planned resource management objectives.
    (2) Escaped prescribed fire means a prescribed fire which has either 
exceeded the prescription or has rekindled after it has been declared to 
be out.
    (b) In the absence of a written reciprocal agreement with any fire 
organization or in situations outside the scope of an agreement, the 
Forest Service is authorized to render emergency assistance in 
suppressing fires and in preserving life and property from the threat of 
fire within the vicinity of Forest Service fire protection facilities 
under the following conditions:
    (1) If a prescribed fire initiated on lands administered by the 
Forest Service escapes onto lands not administered by the Forest 
Service, the Forest Service may commit personnel, materials, and 
equipment without reimbursement or consideration of the fire's 
continuing threat to National Forest System lands or resources.
    (2) When requested, the Forest Service may commit personnel, 
materials, and equipment on a reimbursable basis on lands not 
administered by the Forest Service without regard to the fire's threat 
to National Forest System lands or resources.

[48 FR 44537, Sept. 29, 1983]