FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2009-003
$200,000
$247,980
$447,980
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Deschutes County
Type of Applicant: County
Contact Person: Joe Stutler
Address: 61150 SE 27th Street
City Redmond
Phone: 541-322-7117
FAX: 541-388-2719
Phone (Work/Cell): 541-408-6132
Email: Joest@co.deschutes.or.us
State Oregon
Zip: 97702
Ext.
Call Ahead for FAX:
Project Information
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Name of Project: Deschutes County priority fuels project
Proposed Start Date: Jan 2009
Proposed End Date:
City: La Pine, et al
State:
County: Deschutes
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 43.680355
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
Total Actual Project Acres:
Treatment (1)
Acres
Thinning
120
Treatment (3)
Acres
Dec 2009
Oregon
2
-121.5302
180
Treatment (2)
Mastication/Mowing
Treatment (4)
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
60
Acres
180
0
Treatment (5)
Acres
Treatment (6)
Acres
Cost Per Acre
Hand Pile
0
0
Treatment (other-A) Acres
Treatment (other-B)
Acres
$2,488.78
0
0
Please indicate how this project relates to a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP):
This community has a wildfire protection plan that follows the Healthy Forest Restoration Act
CWPP guidelines.
yes
This project is identified in the CWPP.
yes
Name of CWPP Deschutes County CWPPs
Name of Community at La Pine, Upper Deschutes River Coalition, Bend, Redmond, Sisters
Risk:
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Project Area Description
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Provide a brief overview of the project and the project area. (If applying for a fuels reduction
project, identify vegetation types, fire regime) [1500 Characters Maximum]
In cooperation with USFS, Deschutes County, Project Wildfire & private landowners, this project
will provide defensible space & reduce the hazardous fuels on private and commons lands in highest
priority areas in Deschutes County to reduce the extreme risk of catastrophic fire. With multiple
WUI areas in conditon class 2 & 3, the summer population of 200,000 residents and visitors are at
extreme risk. Deschutes County is submitting 2 grants - this is the #2 priority.
The USFS and BLM have multiple adjacent fuels projects planned or in progress in these areas
including East Tumbull, South Bend HFRA, West Tumbull, Cline Buttes, and La Pine projects. This
program will target fuels reduction (thinning & mowing) on 180 acres in these areas and will
include information & education components aimed at 200,000 residents and visitors to take action
& participate in creating and maintaining defensible space.
The project also includes a biomass component to remove & chip all the material as hog fuel for
clean energy production at no cost to the program.
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project. [500 Characters Maximum]
Jan - April 09: Advertising, education efforts to encourage homeowner participation in program;
Work with landowners to secure contracts/agreements for treatment projects; coordinate program
and complete projects.
April - Dec 09 Utilize existing qualified pool of contractors to complete work; align projects with
adjacent federal projects.
Ongoing: Monitor and evaluate progress and effectiveness of program, and complete quarterly
reporting.
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Scope of Work
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Provide a brief scope of work which clearly describes how grant funds will be spent. (This
should be more specific than the project description) [1500 Characters Maximum]
Funding will be utilized for contracted services to create 30-100' of defensible space around
structures and reduce hazardous fuels through thinning and other mechanical fuels treatments. At
an average of $1000 per acre, this project will treat approximately 180 acres of private and
commons lands. As outlined in the CWPPs, fuel loads will be reduced to return the landscape to
Condition Class 1 and protect structures from extreme fire behavior. No grant funds will be used
towards the utilization of the resulting biomass.
No grant funds will be used towards the utilization of the resulting biomass. The program will in
fact save money as the biomass companies will chip and haul the debris for free, allowing us to use
funding for additonal fuels treatment work.
Funds will also be used for an education component that targets up to 20,000 residents in these areas
encouraging participation in completing defensible space and fuels reduction projects.
Interagency Collaboration
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Specify the private, local, tribal, county, state, federal and/or non-governmental [501(c)(3)]
organizations that will contribute to or participate in the completion of this project. Describe
briefly the contributions each partner will make (i.e. – donating time/equipment, funding, etc.)
[500 Characters Maximum]
Deschutes County will compile the list of the qualified contractors, provide contract oversight,
monitoring of the treatments and regular reporting. The Forest Service and BLM will provide
coordination between the adjacent projects to maximize treatments within the WUI. Project Wildfire
will conduct prevention and education efforts to encourage homeowners to participate in the
program.
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Project Longevity / Maintenance
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Clearly describe how the proposed treatments will be maintained over time. [500 Characters
Maximum]
All project agreements will be signed by landowners and require maintenance of the fuels reduction
areas for a minimum of five years. Monitoring will be conducted by visits to the area and mailings
will be sent to participating landowners in three year intervals to provide information and remind
them of their agreements.
Biomass Utilization
All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
For the purpose of this application, biomass utilization is defined as any practicable end-use of the material that
has value, or the trading of capital for the woody material.
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Biomass from treatment(s) will be utilized. (check one)
yes
no
1) If yes, how is it planned to be used, or what is the end-result (wood products, steam/energy,
mulch etc.) [500 Characters Maximum]
If landowners do not wish to keep resulting posts, poles and firewood, it will be sold to provide
additional treatments. Other woody slash will be chipped and taken to biomass utilization plants to
produce clean energy for Oregon using partners in this program so that there is no charge to the
county for reducing or transporting the hog fuel. This will reduce the overall cost per acre to treat the
fuels. We will use the decrease in cost per acre to treat additional private lands.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization. [250 Characters Maximum]
Deschutes County has a working realtionship with T2 Inc. a chipping and hauling contractor that
chips the woody slash and hauls it to Roseburg Forest Products where the hog fuel is used to make
energy.
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated) [250 Characters Maximum]
Current contracts demonstrate that 50 green tons come from each acre thinned. At $30 per green ton,
the 120 acres to be thinned from this project will yield hog fuel with a value of $180,000. This will
yield 3,000 mega watts of power.
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Project Wild
Total
Biomass
Personnel
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$36,000.00
$0.00
$36,000.00
$10,500.00
$0.00
$10,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$46,500.00
$0.00
$46,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$15,480.00
$0.00
$15,480.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$15,480.00
$0.00
$15,480.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$8,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $8,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$8,000.00
$0.00
$8,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$180,000.00
$180,000.00
$180,000.00
$180,000.00
$360,000.00
$0.00
$6,000.00
$6,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$12,000.00
$6,000.00
$18,000.00
Program coordination
Fringe Benefits
Fringe
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
Supplies & advertising
Contractual
$180,000.00
Fuels reduction contractors
$0.00
Biomass contractors
Subtotal $180,000.00
Other
$12,000.00
Grant administration
$0.00
meeting rooms, expenses
Subtotal $12,000.00
Total Costs
$200,000.00
$57,480.00
$10,500.00
$180,000.00
$447,980.00
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of the grant.
Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental fees earned from
renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale of commodities or items
developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the project period may require prior
approval by the granting agency.
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