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Friday, November 20, 2009

IAWF Backs Fire Legislation

The International Association of Wildland Fire is supporting three pieces of wildland fire legislation currently pending before the U.S. Senate. The association is supporting S.1770, the Stable Fire Funding Act of 2007. It calls for establishes separate funds in the Treasury Department to be used to pay 80% of the cost for Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service emergency wildland fire suppression activities that exceed amounts annually appropriated for wildland fire suppression activities. IAWF also favors S.1635, a bill to reimburse wildland firefighters for the cost of professional liability insurance. It amends the Treasury, Postal Service, ...

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