FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2009-011
$200,000
$204,300
$404,300
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Oregon Dept. of Forestry/South Cascade-Sweet Home
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Mary Helen Smith/Kevin Crowell
Address: 2600 State Street
City Salem
State Oregon
Zip: 97310
Phone: 503-945-7341
Ext.
FAX: 503-945-7416
Call Ahead for FAX:
Phone (Work/Cell):
Email: msmith@odf.state.or.us /kcrowell@odf.state.or
Project Information
2
Name of Project: Lacomb/Upper Berlin WUI Fuels Treatment
Proposed Start Date: 7/1/2009
Proposed End Date:
City: Lebanon
State:
County: Linn
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 44.551716
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
12/31/2011
Oregon
4
-122.758011
600
Total Actual Project Acres:
Treatment (1)
Acres
Treatment (2)
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Thinning
500
Chipping
50
Treatment (3)
Acres
Treatment (4)
Acres
910
Machine Pile
20
Mastication/Mowing
50
Treatment (5)
Acres
Treatment (6)
Acres
Cost Per Acre
Machine Pile Burn
20
Hand Pile
60
Treatment (other-A) Acres
Treatment (other-B)
Acres
$ 444.29
Pruning
150
Hand Pile Burn
60
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 Linn County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Name of Community at Lebanon (Lacomb/Upper Berlin areas)
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]
Project will create defensible space around structures (150 homes) thru landowner cost share
agreements for fuel reduction & stand impovement activities on private forestlands with dense
stagnant stands of Douglas-fir/western hemlock or valley ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir/hemlock as
well as oak savannahs and grasslands.
This project takes advantage of recent door-to-door structural wildfire risk assessments & education
campaiagns in a mostly fire regime 1, condition class 2 area. The Lacomb/Upper Berlin WUI
communities are part of the Lebanon Communities at Risk on the Statewide Risk Assessment and
are adjacent to or intermingled with industrial and BLM forestlands. This project is adjacent to fuel
treatment projects on BLM land (McDowell Creek, Lost Lulay & Round Mtn treatments).
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project. [500 Characters Maximum]
July 2009-July 2011-landowner outreach and information dissemination re project
July 2009-December 2010-individual project sites identified, landowner cost share agreements
signed, prioritization, & cost share applications aproved.
July 2009-October 2011-project layouts, monitoring, payment processing.
Annual Narrative Accomplishment Reporting
October 2011-December 2011-close out of all projects and final payments
December 2011-final accomplishment report
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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]
Fuel reduction and forest health improvement measures will be accomplished on 600 private acres
within the WUI. Forest health improvement measures include precommercial thinning and pruning.
Creation of fuel breaks, defensible space and driveway clearance around approximately 150 homes
will occur. Fuels will be reduced by machine piling, hand piling, mastication, burning and chipping.
Biomass utilization such as hog fuel, firewood, mulch and fence posts will be encouraged.
Financial cost share agreements will be signed with landowners to perform forest health, fuels
reduction treatments on forest land and around homes. Elderly, disabled and low income will be
assisted by ODF crews.
ODF will provide education to landowners and technical assistance for projects in order to
determine appropriate treatments for reduction of fuel build up and promotion of forest health. The
goal is to change the condition class on at least 60% of the project area from 2 to 1. Contract crews
and equipment will be hired by the landowner. Reimbursement according to a signed agreement
between ODF and the landowner will occur after a treatment is completed.
Door to door education of the residents in the project area will continue as well as structural wildfire
risk assessments.
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]
Landowners - share in cost of treatments, monetarily or in kind labor
ODF - provide education materials, crew time & project oversight
Lebanon Fire District - assist in door to door education, structural wildfire risk assessments & ID of
potential treatment areas
Linn County Parks - may assist in admin of treatment contracts on or near their parks in project area
Freres Lumber - utilize hog fuel material
BLM - plans for 3 fuel treatment projects near this proposal area
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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]
Signed agreement between ODF & landowner for payment state that treatment area is to be
maintained for at least 10 years. ODF & Lebanon Fire District will continue education and structural
wildfire assessments every 3 to 5 years. Coordination with BLM concerning fuel management
projects on private and federal land in the area will continue to occur. The County CWPP steering
committee will meet semi-annually to review action items such as fuel treatments and to prioritize
projects.
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]
Firewood, mulch, hog fuel, posts and poles will be the main biomass products. Landowners will be
encouraged to produce firewood, fence posts and poles whenever possible for personal use or
disposition. Mulch from chipping and mastication activities will be recycled or utilized in local
landscaping. Freres Lumber Company in Lyons owns a biomass power generating facilitiy and is
interested in grinding and hauling to their facility mass quantities of material.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization. [250 Characters Maximum]
Landowners and contractors involved in the treatments.
General public referred by ODF to landowners for disposition of biomass materials
Freres Lumber Company-Kyle Freres, contact
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated) [250 Characters Maximum]
200 tons hog fuel @ $22.00/ton=$4,400
200 cords firewood @ $120.00/cord=$24,000
1000 posts @ $3.00/post=$3,000
250 poles @ $7.00/pole=$1750
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Landowners
Total
Linn County
Personnel
$0.00
Admin & Crews
$8,000.00
Protection 4% Admin
Subtotal $8,000.00
$85,000.00
$0.00
$85,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$87,500.00
$8,000.00
$95,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$43,000.00
$0.00
$43,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,300.00
$0.00
$1,300.00
$44,300.00
$0.00
$44,300.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $5,000.00
$15,000.00
$0.00
$15,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$22,000.00
$0.00
$22,000.00
$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
$4,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $4,000.00
$10,000.00
$0.00
$10,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$500.00
$14,500.00
$0.00
$14,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$45,000.00
$0.00
$45,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$195,000.00
$23,000.00
$218,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$10,000.00
$0.00
$10,000.00
Fringe Benefits
OPE
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
Contractual
$150,000.00
Crews & Equipment
$23,000.00
Project Coordinator
Subtotal $173,000.00
Other
$10,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $10,000.00
Business Serv 5% Indirect
Total Costs
$200,000.00
$153,000.00
$45,000.00
$6,300.00
$404,300.00
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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