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CALIFORNIA CODES ANNOTATED
PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
Division 4. Forests, Forestry and Range and Forage Lands
Part 2. Protection of Forest, Range and Forage Lands
Chapter 1. Prevention and Control of Forest Fires
Article 2. General Provisions
Date:
08/31/2009
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§ 4124. Report regarding emergency incidents; Contents
Not later than 120 days after the last date of each fiscal quarter, the department shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, regarding emergency incidents funded entirely or in part from Item 3540-006-0001 of Section 2.00 of the annual Budget Act, commonly referred to as the "emergency fund," or from a similar provision of any future Budget Act that provides funds for emergency fire suppression and detection costs and related emergency revegetation costs, and for which the department administratively classifies these funds as being expended from the emergency fund. The report shall include all of the following:
(a) For each incident that is estimated to cost more than five million dollars ($5,000,000), as adjusted annually by the department to account for inflation using the California Consumer Price Index published by the Department of Industrial Relations, the report shall include all of the following information, to the extent the information is known by the department:
(1) The administrative district or districts and the county or counties in which the incident occurred, and whether the incident occurred in a state responsibility area, local responsibility area, federal responsibility area, or some combination of those areas.
(2) A general description of the incident and the department's response to the incident.
(3) The total estimated cost of the incident, listed by appropriate category, including, but not limited to, overtime, additional staffing, inmate costs, travel, accommodations, air support, and nonstate vendor costs.
(4) The estimated costs charged to the emergency fund, listed by appropriate category, including, but not limited to, overtime, additional staffing, inmate costs, travel, accommodations, air support, and nonstate vendor costs.
(5) The number of personnel and equipment assigned to the incident, including state resources, federal resources, and local resources.
(6) Whether the state's costs to respond to the incident are eligible for reimbursement from the federal government or a local government.
(7) Whether the department had performed any fuel reduction, vegetation management, controlled burns, or other fuel treatment in the area of the incident that impacted either the course of the incident or the department's response to the incident.
(b) For each incident that is estimated to cost less than five million dollars ($5,000,000), as adjusted annually by the department to account for inflation using the California Consumer Price Index published by the Department of Industrial Relations, the report shall include a list of those incidents, specifying each incident's total estimated cost and total estimated costs charged to the emergency fund.
(c) Information on any other costs paid in whole or in part from the emergency fund.
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