Default Alaska Cost Apportionment Process Sample Clauses

Default Alaska Cost Apportionment Process. This Alaska Statewide Operating Plan defines the following default methodology for apportioning costs associated with in-state fires between the fiscally responsible parties. The method is based on the point of origin of the incident and the initial actions taken upon discovery:  When the initial actions upon discovery are an effort to extinguish the wildfire, the costs will be apportioned based on jurisdictional acres burned and the associated responsible fiscal party(ies).  When the initial action upon discovery is surveillance or site-specific protection, all costs incurred are attributed to the agency on whose land the wildfire originated and billed to the fiscally responsible party. It is the intent of this procedure to attribute wildfire suppression costs to the agency who has taken the risk of allowing a fire to burn without suppression action, other than surveillance or site-specific protection, during the stages when it can be most easily suppressed. It is the responsibility of the Protecting Agencies to identify to the best of their ability the exact location of fires when first detected, document that location, implement the initial response based on the management option designation, and notify the Jurisdictional Agency.