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Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service

  • 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  

  • 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 Implementation Status/Rulemaking:    Alliance for Green Heat, a non-profit organization, was selected to administer and distribute the $8 million in…

  • Ecosystem Restoration: Revegetation Effort to Implement National Seed Strategy for USDA

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    Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service   Description: To establish and implement a national revegetation effort on Federal and nonFederal land, including to implement the National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration. Bill Section: 40804(b)(9)(B) Potential Cost:      $130,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26  

  • Wildfire Risk Reduction: Geostationary Operations 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 to establish and operate a program that makes use of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program to rapidly detect and report wildfire starts in all areas in which the Secretary of…