2006 SPRING FALT WHAT’S NEW IN INCIDENT BUSINESS

AD PAY PLAN  We Have the 12 Step Plan  Non-Specified Positions Can be Used  Annual Review to Add/Change Positions  Your Delegation Letter Controls the Exception Positions for your Unit  For PNW Copies of Exceptions Will Come to SORO  Most Position Rates Went Up  Don’t Automatically Extend ADs

INCIDENT BILLING INFO  ASC Needs to Know Which Incidents are Billable or Receivable If you say it’s billable it needs to have chrgs If you say it’s billable it needs to have chrgs  Cost Shares have to be Implementable Think About a Daily Reconciliation Think About a Daily Reconciliation  Contractors to Audit Payment Packages

MISC ADMIN  Appropriated $$$s Require an Agreement Master Agreement is NOT Enough Master Agreement is NOT Enough  Travel to Alaska can be a Blanket (FS)  DOI Security/Background Checks  New/Different Rules on Standby Pay (FS)  Who Still Needs Help in Residual Work???

INCIDENT AUTOMATION  R-6 FS is a Pilot Region, along with R-1 (Montana/Idaho/ND) and R-5 (California)  FS FTRs and EERAs Will be Paid by ASC Using Electronic Upload from Incident  “Data Bus” is the Key to Success  ISuite Can be Used by the Local Unit(s) to Facilitate Payment

o EERA and Aviation Contract data will be entered and managed in the EaTIS application. o Data from EaTIS will populate ABS and the ROSS contracts and agreements module. o The I-Suite database can be populated with incident resource information from ROSS. o I-Suite exports will provide accrual and EERA payment data directly to the ASC-Incident Payment Center; o and Casual (AD) payment data to DOI-National Business Center Casual Pay System. o ASC- Incident Payment Center workflow will be automated. o Financial data electronically transferred to FFIS.