Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service
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Ecosystem Restoration: Ecological Health Restoration Contracts for USDA
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…
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Ecosystem Restoration: Landscape Scale Restoration Water Quality and Fish Passage
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…
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Ecosystem Restoration: Good Neighbor Agreements with States and Tribes for USDA
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…
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Ecosystem Restoration: Financial Assistance To Facilities That Purchase And Process Byproducts For Ecosystem Restoration Projects
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
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Ecosystem Restoration: Temporary Water Crossing Structures
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)…
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Reverse-911 Telecommunication Systems
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service Description: To provide financial assistance to States, Indian Tribes, and units of local government to establish and operate Reverse-911 telecommunication systems. Bill Section: 40803(c)(4) Potential Cost: $30,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 Other TCS Resources: Clearing the Smoke: A Closer Look at Federal Spending and Programs on Wildfire
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program at USDA
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…
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program
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,…
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Mechanical Thinning And Timber Harvesting; Precommercial Thinning In Young Growth at USDA
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service Description: For conducting mechanical thinning and timber harvesting that maximizes the retention of large trees to the extent that the trees promote fire-resilient stands or precommercial thinning in young growth stands for wildlife habitat benefits to provide subsistence resources. Bill Section: 40803(c)(11)(B)(ii) Potential Cost: $400,000,000 Timeline:…
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program For At-Risk Communities
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service Description: To award community wildfire defense grants to at-risk communities, including Tribes, to develop or revise a community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) and to carry out projects described in a CWPP that is not more than 10 years old. Priority will be given to communities that are…