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Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Fuelbreaks at USDA

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For developing or improving potential control locations, including installing fuelbreaks, with a focus on shaded fuelbreaks when ecologically appropriate. Bill Section: 40803(c)(14)(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  

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Removal Of Vegetation For Biochar And Innovative Wood Products at USDA

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: For contracting or employing crews of laborers to modify and remove flammable vegetation on Federal land and for using materials from treatments, to the extent practicable, to produce biochar and other innovative wood products, including through the use of existing locally based organizations that engage young…

  • 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:…

  • National Forest System Restoration and Fuels Reduction Projects: Vegetation and Watershed Management Projects

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service   Description: To enhance ecological integrity and restoration as prescribed in a Water Source Protection Plan or Watershed Protection and Restoration Action Plan. Bill Section: 23001(a)(2) US Code: 16 USC 6542(d)(1) or 6543(a)(3)) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $200,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31    

  • State and Private Forestry Conservation Programs: Forest Legacy Program

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service   Description: Competitive grants to States through the Forest Legacy Program to acquire land and interests in land. Bill Section: 23003(a)(1) US Code: 16 USC 2103c New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost:      $700,000,000 Timeline:      FY22-31