Yes.
The department, in my experience, always stretches the numbers of people that could possibly or potentially apply; they multiply it by a number, and come up with this astronomical cost of a bill. That is just routine procedure.
What I am concerned about is that there seems to be sufficient vagueness in the bill to actually support the position of the department that pretty well anybody could accumulate, over the course of a year, 100 hours' worth of looking for people. It seems to me that the wording “assists in the search or rescue of individuals” means that it's not a first responder issue, but simply a matter of I showed up, I assisted, and I accumulated hours.
I don't want to be unfair, but that seems to me—