Incident Business Practices
Incident Procurement Purchase Card Lodging Guidance:
COVID:
Testing and Alternative Housing Guidelines for Incident Response, June 2024, (PDF) (220 MB)
Cooperative Agreement and Cost Share Settlement:
Forest Service Incident Business Practices is the coordination of best business practices for wildfire, non-fire and FEMA emergency responses.
![Large tents with open sides staged at a forest fire.](/sites/default/files/media_wysiwyg/camp.jpg)
Personnel
Information about AD payplans, letters and memos, travel, pay information, hiring and insurance.
![USDA Forest Service wildland firefighters putting a tree into a chipper.](/sites/default/files/media_wysiwyg/chipper.jpg)
Acquisition
Information about all-risk acquisition authority, emergency equipment rental agreements (EERA's) and contracting.
![A photo looking up through tall pine trees, into a smoke filled sky.](/sites/default/files/media_wysiwyg/smoke_column.jpg)
Cooperative Relations
Master Cooperative Wildland Fire Managmenet and Stafford Act Response Agreement
![Three wildland firefighters standing on a high mountain ridge, watching a CH-47 Chinook helicopter water tanker on wildfire incident.](/sites/default/files/media_wysiwyg/fire_crew_watching_helicopter.jpg)
All-Hazard
The U.S. Forest Service (FS) is the primary link between the interagency wildland fire community, federal structure fire-related agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the National Response Framework (NRF).
![A fire incident basecamps with multiple tents set up in an open field under a smokey sky.](/sites/default/files/media_wysiwyg/incident_camp.jpg)
Administratively Determined (AD) Payment Status Report (06/17/2024), (PDF) (762 KB) If document doesn't open, please try a different browser such as Chrome.
The ECI is located in the upper left hand corner of the OF-288. You can search the report by hitting Ctrl F and entering your ECI.
If you have questions about this report call ASC Incident Finance 1-877-372-7248, select option #1 then option #3.
AD’s without access to Forest Service computers can email the Budget and Finance Contact Center to submit questions or request additional information regarding payment status.
![Wildland firefighters carrying equipment, walking in a line.](/sites/default/files/media_wysiwyg/dollar_ridge_fire_breckinridge_hotshots.jpeg)
Compensation Injury Guidance
This page addresses all work related injuries and illnesses while on wildland fires or other emergency incidents..