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This rule regarding an acquisition regulation change is being implemented by the Office of Procurement and Property Management. The United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service has three stewardship contracting instruments (the Integrated Resources Timber Contract, Integrated Resources Services Contract, and the Stewardship Agreement). The contractors currently apply a different methodology for fire liability. Section 8205 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 contains a requirement that the Agency use a fire liability provision in all stewardship contracts and agreements this is in substantially the same form as the fire liability provisions contract in the Integrated Resource Timber Contract in Forest Service Contract numbered 2400-13, part H, section H.4; as in effect on February 7, 2014; and Timber Sales Contracts conducted in pursuant to section 14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (U.S.C. 472a).