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Incident Business Practices

This website is a collection of business items of interest to employees, forest administrative or budget officers, incident management teams, and program managers and provides links to sites with additional information. 

Pacific Southwest Region Operating Guidelines

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Incident Business Contacts

Kris Armstrong

Assistant Director, Incident Business Admin & Operations

Cell: 661-342-7297

kris.armstrong@usda.gov 

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS &

COST SHARES

INCIDENT FINANCE

CONTRACTING OPERATIONS

Heidi Chambers

Supervisory Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 530-648-6044

heidi.chambers@usda.gov

POC: ONCC, OSCC

Local Agreements, CFMA, CFAA, Cost Shares & Settlements

Mandi Musachia

Supervisory Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 530-258-7155

mandi.musachia@usda.gov

POC: KNF, LNF, MDF, MNF, SHF, SRF, TNF, PNF 

AO and HUC POC

Jennifer Wells

Supervisory Fire Contract Specialist

Cell: 530-394-8042

Office: 530-675-1146

Jennifer.Wells2@usda.gov

Patricia Torres

Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 707-656-6187

patricia.torres@usda.gov

Patrick DeNatale

Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 559-290-0606

patrick.denatale@usda.gov

POC: STF, SNF, SQF, LPF, ANF, BDF, CNF, INF

eDOC, AD's, IB Website POC, ECC

Isabel Kusumoto

Fire Contract Operations Specialist

Cell: 760-937-7108

isabel.kusumoto@usda.gov

Allison Stewart

Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 559-920-5754

allison.stewart@usda.gov

 

Lindsay Sundal

Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 530-551-1779

lindsay.sundal@usda.gov

POC: TBA

VACANT

Fire Contract Operations Specialist

Cell: TBA

first.last@usda.gov

 

VACANT

Incident Business Specialist

Cell: TBA

first.last@usda.gov

 

Holly Hernandez

Incident Business Specialist

Cell: 530-254-4696

Holly.Hernandez@usda.gov

POC: TBA

VACANT

Fire Contract Operations Specialist

Cell: TBA

first.last@usda.gov

 

Personnel

  Administratively Determined (AD) / Emergency Workers (Casual Hires)

ASC Payment Procedures (Casual Pay)

  AD Position Exceptions

  • Currently Under Review

  DOI Casual Hires

Compensation for Injury

ASC Payment Procedures for Agreements & Contracts (VIPR, EERA, National Contracts)

Claims

Incident Replacement

Acquisitions

Cooperative Fire Agreements & Cost Shares

  Contacts

  Agreements

  National Memorandum of Understanding for Wildland Fire Management 

 California Conservation Corps (CCC) Agreement

  Reimbursement Process for Non-Suppression Activities under Cooperative Fire Agreement

Cost Shares

Suppression Repair

Job Code Direction

Last updated September 10, 2026