Protecting Agency definition

Protecting Agency. The Agency responsible for providing direct incident management and services to a given area pursuant to its jurisdictional responsibility or as specified and provided by federal or state law, contract, or agreement.
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Protecting Agency. The Agency responsible for providing direct incident management and services to a given area pursuant to its jurisdictional responsibility or as specified and provided by federal or state law, contract, or agreement. Protection: The actions taken to limit the adverse environmental, social, political, and economical effects of fire.
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Protecting Agency. The Agency responsible for providing wildfire protection, incident management and other activities to a given area pursuant to its jurisdictional responsibility or agreed upon protection responsibility as specified and provided by federal or state law, contract, or agreement. Protection: The actions taken to limit the adverse environmental, social, political, and economical effects of fire. Protection Boundaries: The exterior perimeter of an area within which a specified fire agency has assumed a degree of responsibility for wildland fire control. It may include land in addition to that for which the agency has jurisdiction or contractual responsibility.
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Examples of Protecting Agency in a sentence

  • Procurement costs by one Party in support of another that are reasonable and prudent may be charged back to the Protecting Agency.

  • The Protecting Agency may request suppression resources of other Agencies for its protection work.

  • Within such zones, a Supporting Agency will, upon request or voluntarily, take initial attack action in support of the Protecting Agency.

  • Unless otherwise agreed, the Jurisdictional Agency will provide an Agency representative or appropriate environmental technical specialist to advise a Protecting Agency of any special management considerations that may influence suppression action.

  • The Protecting Agency will be responsible for management of the fire under the provisions of this Agreement.

  • In such instances, the Party taking action will promptly notify the Protecting Agency.

  • When a Protecting Agency takes suppression action on lands it protects for the Jurisdictional Agency, and the Jurisdictional Agency is requested to assist, the Protecting Agency will reimburse the Jurisdictional Agency for their assistance.

  • Fires: The Protecting Agency will notify the Jurisdictional Agency of any fire suspected to have been caused by a purchaser, contractor, operator or permittee, etc., of the Jurisdictional Agency as soon as it becomes aware of the situation.

  • As soon as practical, the Protecting Agency shall initiate an investigation of the accident.

  • Protecting Agency: Agency responsible for providing direct incident management within a specific geographical area pursuant to its jurisdictional responsibility or as specified and provided by contract, cooperative agreement, etc.


More Definitions of Protecting Agency

Protecting Agency. The agency providing fire management services to a given area pursuant to this Agreement. Protection: See Fire Management Activities and/or Services. Protection Area: That area which, by law or identified or authorized pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, is provided wildland fire protection by a state or federal agency. This may include land protected under exchange or payment for protection. Protection Boundaries: Mutually agreed upon boundaries delineated on maps, or otherwise described, identifying areas of direct fire protection responsibility. Protection Area Maps: Official maps which identify areas of direct fire protection responsibility for each agency. Reciprocal Fire Suppression: Reciprocal fire suppression is the act of helping the protecting agency, at no cost for the first 24 hours or by agreement, suppress wildfires. Reciprocity is attained by agreeing among one another the kind location and numbers of firefighting resources which will automatically initial attack a wildfire, regardless of the
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Protecting Agency. The Agency responsible for providing wildfire protection, incident management and other activities to a given area pursuant to its jurisdictional responsibility or agreed upon protection responsibility as specified and provided by federal or state law, contract, or agreement. Protection: The actions taken to limit the adverse environmental, social, political, and economical effects of fire. Protection Boundaries: The exterior perimeter of an area within which a specified fire agency has assumed a degree of responsibility for wildland fire control. It may include land in addition to that for which the agency has jurisdiction or contractual responsibility. Response: Activities that address the short‐term, direct effect of an incident, including immediate actions to save lives, protect property, and meet basic human needs. Also includes the execution of emergency operations plans as well as mitigation activities designed to limit the loss of life, personal injury, property damage, and other unfavorable outcomes.
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Related to Protecting Agency

  • Inspecting Agency means the agencies nominated and authorized by the competent authority for inspecting the material at the works of the supplier or at the designated place of inspection prescribed by the purchasing authority.

  • Cooperating agency means any Federal agency other than a lead agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved in a proposal (or a reasonable alternative) for legislation or other major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. The selection and responsibilities of a cooperating agency are described in Sec. 1501.6. A State or local agency of similar qualifications or, when the effects are on a reservation, an Indian Tribe, may by agreement with the lead agency become a cooperating agency.

  • Contracting agency means the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by such department, or any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency, or any State college or university, any county college, or any local unit; with respect to this Contract, the contracting agency shall mean the Division;

  • Nodal Agency means the Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited, (MPUVNL) Bhopal;

  • Lead Agency means the agency facilitating the procurement and establishing the Contract.

  • Implementing Agency means the "Division of Waste Management."

  • The Procuring Agency means the organization purchasing the Goods, as named in SCC.

  • Local agency means a city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered.

  • Public agency means the state or any local subdivision thereof, or any state or local department, agency, board or commission.

  • Educational Agency means a school district, board of cooperative educational services (BOCES), school, or the New York State Education Department (NYSED).

  • Implementing Agencies means the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank in accordance with paragraph 22 of the Instrument.

  • escort agency means a person or business association who furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes for a fee, tip, or other consideration.

  • Issuing agency means an organization responsible for assigning a globally unique identifier to an enterprise, as indicated in the Register of Issuing Agency Codes for ISO/IEC 15459, located at http://www.aimglobal.org/?Reg_Authority15459.

  • State Contracting Agency means the department for which this contract is to be performed and for which the Commissioner or Authorized Designee acted in signing this contract.

  • Financing agency means a bank, finance company, or other person that in the ordinary course of business makes advances against goods or documents of title or that by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer intervenes in ordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for sale, as by purchasing or paying the sellers draft or making advances against it or by merely taking it for collection whether or not documents of title accompany or are associated with the draft. "Financing agency" includes also a bank or other person that similarly intervenes between persons that are in the position of seller and buyer in respect to the goods under section 2707.

  • Procuring Agency means all State of New Mexico agencies, commissions, institutions, political subdivisions and local public bodies allowed by law to entertain procurements.

  • Host agency means a public agency, private nonprofit organization, or private sector employer, other than a political party, exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which provides a training site and supervision for a participant.

  • Enforcing agency means the state Department of Health, or any local health

  • Custodial agency means an agency of the government designated to act on behalf of the government owner of the disposal site.

  • Using agency has the same meaning as defined in Texas Government Code, Section 2166.001(10).

  • Requesting agency means the agency of state government that has requested a specific budget amendment.

  • Central Agency means the agency operating the National Load Dispatch Centre or such other agency as the Central Commission may designate from time to time;

  • System Agency means HHSC or any of the agencies of the State of Texas that are overseen by HHSC under authority granted under state law and the officers, employees, authorized representatives, and designees of those agencies. These agencies include: HHSC and the Department of State Health Services.

  • Enforcement agency means any agency granted authority to enforce the Federal labor laws. It includes the enforcement components of DOL (Wage and Hour Division, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and the National Labor Relations Board. It also means a State agency designated to administer an OSHA-approved State Plan, but only to the extent that the State agency is acting in its capacity as administrator of such plan. It does not include other Federal agencies which, in their capacity as contracting agencies, conduct investigations of potential labor law violations. The enforcement agencies associated with each labor law under E.O. 13673 are–

  • the Agency means the Environment Agency;

  • Collection agency means a person that is directly engaged in collecting or attempting to collect a claim owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another, or repossessing or attempting to repossess a thing of value owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another person, arising out of an expressed or implied agreement. Collection agency includes an individual who, in the course of collecting, repossessing, or attempting to collect or repossess, represents himself or herself as a collection or repossession agency, or a person that performs collection activities that are regulated under article 9 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339.901 to 339.920. Collection agency includes a person that furnishes or attempts to furnish a form or a written demand service that is represented to be a collection or repossession technique, device, or system to be used to collect or repossess claims, if the form contains the name of a person other than the creditor in a manner that indicates that a request or demand for payment is being made by a person other than the creditor even though the form directs the debtor to make payment directly to the creditor rather than to the other person whose name appears on the form. Collection agency includes a person that uses a fictitious name or the name of another in the collection or repossession of claims to convey to the debtor that a third person is collecting or repossessing or has been employed to collect or repossess the claim.