qualifying incident
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
the term “qualifying incident”—
(A) means—
(i) a wildfire incident, a prescribed fire incident, or a severity incident; or
(ii) an incident that the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior determines is similar in nature to an incident described in clause (i); and
(B) does not include an initial response incident that is contained within 36 hours; and
Source
- 2026–present5 U.S.C. § 5545cGovernment Organization and Employees · Incident response premium pay for employees engaged in wildland firefighting · in this section