Title III-County Funds

Title III is modified by changing the types of activities eligible for funding, by adding a certification requirement, and by requiring counties to return funds not obligated by September 30, 2012, to the Treasury.

• Eliminates some authorized uses: e.g., community service work camps, easement purchases, forest related after school programs, planning efforts to reduce or mitigate the impact of development on adjacent Federal lands.
  
  
• Title III funds may be used only to carry out the Firewise Communities program, develop community wildfire protection plans, and reimburse for emergency services paid for by counties and performed on Federal land (e.g. search and rescue, firefighting).
  
  
• There is a new requirement that counties allocating funds for title III projects must submit a certification that the funds were used in accordance with title III (including a description of amounts and uses).
  
  
• The authority to initiate title III projects now terminates on September 30, 2011.  There is a new requirement that funds not obligated by September 30, 2012, be returned to the Treasury.