Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For preplanning fire response workshops and workforce training for staff, non-Federal firefighters, and Native village fire crews. Bill Section: 40803(c)(7)(B)(ii) Potential Cost:      $50,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 Other TCS Resources: Clearing the Smoke: A Closer Look at Federal Spending and Programs on Wildfire  

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: To enter into an agreement with a Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute to compile and display existing data for hazardous fuel reduction or wildfire prevention treatments and for large wildfires, as well as facilitate coordination and use of existing and future interagency fuel treatment data. The Institute…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: The Joint Fire Science Program is an interagency partnership between the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior that provides competitive funding for basic and applied wildfire science research programs. Bill Section: 40803(c)(9)(B) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $10,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 TCS Notes:…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For entering into contracts, including stewardship contracts or agreements, the purpose of each of which shall be to restore ecological health on not fewer than 10,000 acres of Federal land, including Indian forest land or rangeland, and for salaries and expenses associated with preparing and executing…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: To establish a collaborative-based, landscape-scale restoration program to restore water quality or fish passage on Federal land, including Tribal forest land or rangeland. The program will solicit and fund 5-year projects to restore fish passage or water quality, prioritizing projects that result in the most miles…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: To provide funding to States and Tribes for implementing restoration projects on Federal land pursuant to good neighbor agreements or other agreements to protect Tribal forest land or rangeland under the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004. Bill Section: 40804(b)(2)(B) Potential Cost:      $160,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: To provide financial assistance to facilities that purchase and process byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects. Bill Section: 40804(b)(3) Potential Cost:      $400,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 Other TCS Resources: Biomass Subsidy Fact Sheet Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework Should Bypass Biomass  

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For grants to States and Tribes to establish loan, rental/lease, or cost-share programs for portable skidder bridges, bridge mats, or other temporary water crossing structures, to minimize stream bed disturbance on non-Federal land and Federal land. For State programs, entities that engage in primary (e.g., loggers)…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For entering into an agreement with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish and operate a program that makes use of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Program to rapidly detect and report wildfire starts in all areas in which the…

Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For collaboration and collaboration-based activities, including facilitation, certification of collaboratives, and planning and implementing projects under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. Bill Section: 40803(c)(10) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $100,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 TCS Notes: The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, started in 2009,…