Wildfire Suppression: Funding Transfers Cause Project Cancellations and Delays, Strained Relationships, and Management DisruptionsDIANE Publishing, 2004 - 62 sivua In 2003, wildfires burned roughly 4 million acres in the U.S., destroyed over 5,000 structures, took the lives of 30 firefighters, & cost over $1 billion to suppress. The substantial expense of fighting wildfires has exceeded the funds appropriated for wildfire suppression (WS) nearly every year since 1990. To pay for WS costs when the funds appropriated are insufficient, the Forest Service & the Interior Dept. have transferred funds from other programs. This report identifies: the amount of funds transferred & reimbursed for WS since 1999, & the programs from which agencies transferred funds; the effects on programs from which funds were taken; & alternative approaches that could be considered for estimating annual WS costs & funding WS. Illus. |
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10-year average actual suppression costs additional agency officials agency programs Agency-specific reserve accounts amount of funds annual wildfire suppression Appendix available for transfers Congress reimbursed Congressional Budget Office construction and land contain suppression costs dollars estimating suppression costs example federal budget deficit Fire programs fire season fire suppression firefighting fiscal Forest Service officials Forest Service Region fuels reduction funding for wildfire funding wildfire suppression funds were transferred GAO-04-612 Wildfire Suppression grants habitat Hayman fire Hiawatha National Forest impacts of funding indefinite appropriation Interior programs Inyo National Forest K-V Fund methods for estimating million National Park Service need to transfer nonprobability sample nonprofit organizations pay for wildfire percent private forestry reforestation Region 9 reimbursed funds Service and Interior supplemental appropriations suppress wildfires suppression appropriations Suppression Funding Transfers transferred and reimbursed transferred for wildfire transferred in 2002 U.S. Forest Service wildfire suppression activities wildfire suppression costs Wildfire Suppression Funding wildland fire suppression
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Sivu 47 - Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, cast 3,982,011 votes now, against 3,870,222 cast then, showing an aggregate now of 3,982,011.
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Sivu 47 - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina. Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Sivu 47 - Results from nonprobability samples cannot be used to make inferences about a population because in a nonprobability sample, some elements of the population being studied have no chance or an unknown chance of being selected as part of the sample.
Sivu 45 - Directors of the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service; the Acting Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs; the Director, Office of Management and Budget; and other interested parties.
Sivu 12 - Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service within the Department of the Interior — fight wildland fires.
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Sivu 1 - The Honorable Jeff Bingaman Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate The Honorable Larry E.
Sivu 1 - Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service in the Department of the Interior — provide the bulk of the resources needed to suppress these fires.