[Title 36 CFR 211]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - July 1, 2002 Edition]
[Title 36 - PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY]
[Chapter II - FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE]
[Part 211 - ADMINISTRATION]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


36PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY22002-07-012002-07-01false211PART 211PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTYFOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
PART 211--ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents




                         Subpart A--Cooperation

Sec.
211.1-211.2  [Reserved]
211.3  Cooperation with State officers.
211.4  Cooperation for fire prevention and control.
211.5  Emergency fire suppression assistance.
211.6  Cooperation in forest investigations or the protection, 
          management, and improvement of the National Forest System.

Subpart B [Reserved]

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 472, 498, 551.



                         Subpart A--Cooperation



Secs. 211.1-211.2  [Reserved]



Sec. 211.3  Cooperation with State officers.

    All forest officers will cooperate with State officials, insofar as 
practicable, to enforce State fire, game, and health laws. They are 
authorized to accept appointments, without compensation, as deputy State 
fire wardens, game wardens, and/or health officers whenever in the 
judgment of the Chief of the Forest Service the performance of the 
duties required by these offices will not interfere with their duties as 
Federal forest officers.

[1 FR 1261, Aug. 15, 1936]



Sec. 211.4  Cooperation for fire prevention and control.

    The Forest Service shall, whenever possible, and is hereby 
authorized to enter into such agreements with private owners of timber, 
with railroads, and with other industrial concerns operating in or near 
the national forests as will result in mutual benefit in the prevention 
and suppression of forest fires: Provided, That the service required of 
each party by such agreements shall be in proportion to the benefits 
conferred.

[1 FR 1261, Aug. 15, 1936]



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]



Sec. 211.6  Cooperation in forest investigations or the protection, management, and improvement of the National Forest System.

    (a) Purpose and scope. Forest Service officers, when engaged in 
cooperative activities otherwise authorized, may receive monies from 
cooperators only for cooperative work in forest investigations or for 
the protection, management, and improvement of the National Forest 
System and only in accordance with written cooperative agreements. 
Management of the National Forest System may include such work as 
planning, analysis, and related studies, as well as resource activities.
    (b) Reimbursements. Agency expenditures for work undertaken in 
accordance with this section may be made from Forest Service 
appropriations available for such work, with subsequent reimbursement 
from the cooperator, in accordance with established written agreements. 
Forest Service officers shall issue written bills for collection for 
cooperator reimbursement payments within the same fiscal year as Forest 
Service expenditures.
    (c) Bonding. Each written agreement involving a non-Government 
cooperator's total contribution of $25,000 or more to the Forest Service 
on a reimbursable basis, must include a provision requiring a payment 
bond to guarantee the cooperator's reimbursement payment. Acceptable 
security for a payment bond includes Department of the Treasury approved 
corporate sureties, Federal Government obligations, and irrevocable 
letters of credit. For the purposes of this section, a non-Government 
cooperator is an entity that is not a member, division, or affiliate of 
a Federal, State, or local government.
    (d) Avoiding conflict of interest. Forest Service officers shall 
avoid acceptance of contributions from cooperators when such 
contributions would reflect unfavorably upon the ability of the Forest 
Service to carry out its responsibilities and duties. Forest Service 
officers shall be guided by the provisions of 18 U.S.C. parts 201-209, 5 
CFR part 2635, and applicable Department of Agriculture regulations, in 
determining if a conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest 
exists in a proposed cooperative effort. Forest Service ethics officials 
or the designated Department of Agriculture ethics official should be 
consulted on conflict of interest issues.

[64 FR 60678, Nov. 8, 1999]

Subpart B [Reserved]