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avalanches, tornadoes or other high -wind events, and medical emergencies to provide first -aid <br />or to prevent risk of human injury or death or damage to property. The response must take place <br />during or immediately following the emergency event. <br />Title Ill funds may be used to reimburse a participating county for emergency services carried out <br />on Federal land in response to the COVID-19 National Emergency. <br />Routine sheriff's patrols of national forest roads and campgrounds, clean-up after a flood event, <br />"mop -up" after a wildfire is contained and similar follow-up actions not carried out during or <br />immediately following the emergency event are not emergency services as envisioned in the <br />Secure Rural Schools Act. <br />Can Title III funds be spent on planning protection of communities not directly adjacent to <br />national forest lands but adjacent to other federal lands? <br />Community wildfire protection plans have various footprints and often address lands not <br />directly adjacent to national forests that share the same fireshed as national forest lands. <br />Firesheds are lands around a community where wildfire ignitions could cause fires to spread <br />into the community. Title III funds received from the Forest Service may be used to fund the <br />planning. if Forest Service employees are involved in developing or updating a community <br />wildfire protection plan that addresses national forest lands and other federal, state, county, <br />municipal, tribal or private lands all within the same fireshed, <br />If BLM personnel are involved in developing or updating a community wildfire protection plan <br />that addresses 0&C and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands and other federal, state, county, <br />municipal, tribal or private lands, all within the same fireshed, Title III funds received from the <br />BLM may be used to fund the planning. <br />Can Title III be used to fund community wildfire protection plans without coordination with <br />the Secretary concerned? <br />No. The Act specifically requires community wildfire protection plans developed with Title III <br />funding to be coordinated with the Secretary concerned. Title III may be used to fund the <br />development or updating of a community wildfire protection plan in coordination with Forest <br />Service or BLM personnel, as appropriate to the source of the Title III payment, acting on behalf <br />of the Secretary for the purpose of this section of the Act. <br />Secure Rural Schools <br />