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Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Post-Fire Restoration at USDA

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For post-fire restoration activities that are implemented not later than 3 years after the date that a wildland fire is contained. Bill Section: 40803(c)(16)(B) Potential Cost:      $100,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 TCS Notes: This funding is available for post-fire restoration activities that are implemented not later than…

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Firewood Banks

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: To provide feedstock to firewood banks and to provide financial assistance for the operation of firewood banks. Bill Section: 40803(c)(17) Potential Cost:      $8,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 Other TCS Resources: Clearing the Smoke: A Closer Look at Federal Spending and Programs on Wildfire  

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Federal Wildland Firefighter Salaries And Expenses at USDA

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For the salaries and expenses of Federal wildland firefighters. Bill Section: 40803(c)(2)(8) Potential Cost:      $480,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 Other TCS Resources: Clearing the Smoke: A Closer Look at Federal Spending and Programs on Wildfire  

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program at USDA

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    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…

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program

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    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,…

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Mechanical Thinning And Timber Harvesting; Precommercial Thinning In Young Growth at USDA

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    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:…

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program For At-Risk Communities

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    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…

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Prescribed Fires at USDA

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: Provides funding for the planning and conducting of prescribed fires and related activities by the USDA Forest Service. Bill Section: 40803(c)(13)(B) Potential Cost:      $250,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26 Other TCS Resources: Clearing the Smoke: A Closer Look at Federal Spending and Programs on Wildfire  

  • State and Private Forestry Conservation Programs: Urban and Community Forestry Assistance Program

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service   Description: Competitive grants to States, Territories, Tribes, local governments, or nonprofit organizations for tree planting and related activities through the Urban and Community Forestry Assistance program. Bill Section: 23003(a)(2) US Code: 16 USC 2105(c) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $1,500,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31    

  • Competitive Grants for Non-Federal Land Owners: Climate Mitigation or Forest Resilience Grants

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service   Description: $150 million for competitive grants through the Landscape-Scale Restoration Program to assist underserved forest landowners – beginning, in high poverty areas, federally recognized tribes, limited resource producers, or veterans – in climate mitigation or forest resilience practices; $150 million to support the participation of underserved forest landowners in…