Forestry and fire control funds.

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  • (1) The division shall use money available to it to meet the costs of:
    • (a) managing forest, range, watershed, and wildland urban interface fires;
    • (b) managing insect and disease epidemics;
    • (c) rehabilitating or reforesting nonfederal forest, range, and watershed lands;
    • (d) promoting wildfire preparedness, wildfire mitigation, and wildfire prevention;
    • (e) restoring and maintaining landscapes ensuring landscapes across the state are resilient to wildfire-related disturbances, in accordance with fire management objectives;
    • (f) creating fire-adapted communities, ensuring that human populations and infrastructure can withstand a wildfire without loss of life or property;
    • (g) improving wildfire response, ensuring that all political subdivisions can participate in making and implementing safe, effective, and efficient risk-based wildfire management decisions;
    • (h) reducing risks to wildlife such as the greater sage grouse; and
    • (i) carrying on the purposes of this chapter.
  • (2) All money available to the division to meet the costs of Subsections (1)(a) through (i) is nonlapsing and available to the division until expended.
  • (3)
    • (a) The collection and disbursement of all money made available to the division shall be in accordance with the rules of the Division of Finance.
    • (b) Money collected by the division from fees, rentals, sales, contributions, reimbursements, and other such sources shall be deposited in the appropriate account.




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