Common use of Sharing of Costs Clause in Contracts

Sharing of Costs. A. Wildland Fire Cost Share Agreement A cost share agreement will be prepared when there is: 1. a multi‐jurisdictional incident with single or unified command and a decision has been made to share resources among jurisdictional agencies, or 2. an incident which threatens or ▇▇▇▇▇ across DPAs of the State and Federal Agencies and the Mutual Aid period has been exceeded. The State and the Federal Agencies have agreed upon methods for determining cost share procedures. The State and Federal Agencies agree to jointly share the cost of incident support and coordination operations. These methods are described in Exhibit C, Cost Share Agreement and Template. B. Structure Defense Cost Sharing in the Wildland Urban Interface For wildland fires on lands managed by the agencies signatory to this agreement, the protecting agency with financial responsibility will assume the costs of the actions it takes to keep wildland fire from advancing on or threatening structures. For wildland fires in or threatening local jurisdictions that border or overlay State or Federal DPA, local agencies are responsible for their own agency’s costs for defending structures within their jurisdiction. The State or Federal Agencies are not financially responsible in situations when the responsible fire protection agencies order additional resources and/or actions beyond the level approved by the incident command structure. If a local agency needs to augment resources for structure defense, negotiation with the State or Federal Agency having DPA or fiscal responsibility will occur prior to a determination to share or reciprocate the costs of the agreed upon augmentation (as determined and negotiated by the Unified Incident Commanders, in consultation with Agency Representatives and Agency Administrators). C. Local Government Agency Involvement in Cost Sharing The State and Federal Agencies recognize that cost share agreements may contain cost shares assigned to local government agencies that are charged with the protection of LRA including structure defense. For wildland fires on lands managed by the agencies signatory to this agreement, the agency with financial responsibility will assume the costs of the actions it takes to keep wildland fire from advancing on or threatening structures. For wildland fires in or threatening local jurisdictions that border or overlay State or Federal DPA, local agencies are responsible for their own agency’s costs for defending structures within their jurisdiction. When a local agency needs to augment resources for structure defense, as determined and negotiated by the Unified Incident Commanders, in consultation with Agency Representative and Agency Administrators, the State or Federal Agency having DPA or fiscal responsibility may negotiate to share or reciprocate the cost of the agreed upon augmentation. The State or Federal Agencies are not financially responsible in situations when the responsible fire protection agencies order additional resources and/or actions beyond the level approved by the incident command structure.