Board of Commissioners
County XXXXX
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Dear Commsioners:
Enclosed you will find information concerning acquisition of excess federal property that is being made available to emergency fire service organizations through the Montana DNRC. The Cooperative Fire Management Agreement that your County has entered into with the State of Montana makes your County eligible to participate in this program. If your County has delegated sufficient authority to your County Fire warden to make financial decisions regarding recovery of Department of Defense property, you may choose to forward this material to that individual. The Fire warden, then, would disseminate this information to your Emergency Fire Service Organizations within the County and subsequently receive and forward equipment requests to the Northeastern Land Office. Enclosed you will find five documents which outline the program’s details.
The Equipment agreement PREFERABLY will be entered into by the County as a whole, on behalf of the individual emergency fire service organizations within the County. Whomever your County chooses to give signatory authority to the agreement, it will be necessary to sign and date the DoD (FFP) Equipment Agreement and return it as soon as possible.
This program has already provided about $5,000,000 worth of equipment to County or other Emergency Fire Service Organizations. Recently a dump truck was acquired by Golden Valley County which they are developing into a water tender for their county. Other equipment including suburbans, pickup trucks, fire apparatus, ambulances, heavy equipment, semi tractors along with the previously mentioned dump trucks have been placed by the Montana DNRC through the program. Please complete the DoD (FFP) Equipment Agreement, and the Request for Property to Obtain under DoD (FFP) Agreement. If you have any questions concerning this opportunity, please call Don Pyrah, Rural