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Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2009-024
$198,527
$198,527
$397,054
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Oregon Department of Forestry/Central Oregon Dist.
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Mary Helen Smith/Stuart Otto
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): 503-945-7341
Email: msmith@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
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Name of Project: Crook County Fuels Reduction
Proposed Start Date: 05/01/2009
Proposed End Date:
City: Prineville
State:
County: Crook
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 44.855000000
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
12/31/2011
Oregon
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120.8454
240
Total Actual Project Acres:
Treatment (1)
Acres
Treatment (2)
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Thinning
200
Machine Pile
200
Treatment (3)
Acres
Treatment (4)
Acres
500
Mastication/Mowing 100
0
Treatment (5)
Acres
Treatment (6)
Acres
Cost Per Acre
0
0
Treatment (other-A) Acres
Treatment (other-B)
Acres
$ 794.11
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 Crook County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Name of Community at Marks Ck, Johnson Cr, McKay Cr, Lofton and Turner creeks=McKay
Block.
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]
This project is for fuels reduction in the Mckay block.There are several areas in the block that are
identified in the Crook Coounty CWPP with a high hazard rating.The project will focus on creating
defensible space around homes and acreage along Mckay Cr, Johnson Cr, Marks Cr and
Lofton/Turner Cr. The vegetation types include ponderosa forest, mixed ponderosa, juniper,
bitter/sage brush, and grass. The Fire Regime is 1/2; Cond. Class 2. Fuels reduction would occur
imediately adjoining homes, drive ways, access routes and could provide secondary fuel breaks.
Treatments in this project area would include thinning overstocked trees, pruning
branches,removing ladder fuels and brush, mowing tall grass, and disposing of the slash and debris
by burning or chipping. In the Marks Creek area project work would adjoin the Forest Service
Wagner Mountain prescribed burn, the Mill Creek and Ochoco Valley areas would adjoin the Forest
Service Trout and Rocky prescribed burn treatments.
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project. [500 Characters Maximum]
*Spring 2009 - landowner outreach & prevention education with letters to landowners, attendance at
homeowner association meetings, and direct contacts.
*Landowners will sign cost-share agreements and assessments would be conducted through summer
and fall of 2009.
*On-the-ground work would begin fall 2009 and continue until 2011.
*Project monitoring would be on-going and would continue past the life of the grant.
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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]
Work would begin with development of an outreach program that would be use to notify individual
landowners and homeowner associations and other groups of the Fuels Reduction Program This
program would notify and educate the landowners of the need for fuels reduction to provide greater
protection from wildifre and how defensible space/fuels reduction should be done.
Portions of the budget will be for personnal time and for supplies for out reach programs, prevention
education materials and mailings. (NRS 3, supplies) Landowner's homes and property would be
assessed, and project agreements signed. Once fuel reduction work was completed, work would be
reviewed, if approved cost-share incentive funds would be disbursed. Grant funds will be needed to
assess homes and properties, obtain work agreements, administering cost share program and review
and mapping completed projects (NRS2, Mileage).
Mastication/mowing is projected to occur on half of the project area, while we are anticipating full
project area hand piling where necessary. Posts, poles and firewood will be utilized where possible.
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]
Contributors to this project include: Crook County, Crook County CWPP Group (representatives
from USFS, BLM, Crook County, Sheriff's Dept., Crook County Fire& Rescue and ODF ) all
contributing time toward project development and coordination. Homeowners, road districts, and
associations in the Mckay block will donate time, equipment and in some cases direct payment of
contractors .
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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]
As part of the cost-sh agreement, homeowners will maintain their defensible space for atleast 5 years.
Along with homeowner responsibility, ODF and CC Fire & Rescue will monitor project maintenance
through site visits, education efforts like the Fire Ready or Firewise campaigns. CWPP Groups &
homeowner associations will monitor and notify residents to keep their property in a fire-safe
condition. Where it applies, ODF will notify residents on a 5-year rotation under Senate Bill 360.
Biomass Utilization
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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]
Several opportunities for biomass utilization are available. Material removed from sites will be made
available for firewood or posts and poles. In addition, some materials may be transported to the
Prineville Sawmill Company for use in their steam boiler. Currently it is diffcult to determine how
much will be used for steam generation. This will depend on the amount and location of the material
and cost of transportation.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization. [250 Characters Maximum]
The Prineville Sawmill Company in Prineville would be the primary material recipient.
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated) [250 Characters Maximum]
There is a possibility of approximately 600 green tons (3 tons/acre Pine and/ or Juniper) that could be
removed, at an estimated value of $18/green ton ($10,800).
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Rural FD
Total
Landowners
Personnel
$42,669.00
NRS 2, NRS 3,
$0.00
CC Fire & Rescue
Subtotal $42,669.00
$53,672.00
$0.00
$53,672.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$96,341.00
$2,000.00
$98,341.00
$35,855.00
$0.00
$35,855.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$61,699.00
$1,000.00
$62,699.00
$3,638.00
$0.00
Subtotal $3,638.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,638.00
$0.00
$3,638.00
$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
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$10,000.00
$450.00
$10,450.00
$106,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $106,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$106,000.00
$0.00
$106,000.00
$212,000.00
$0.00
$212,000.00
$9,926.00
$0.00
Subtotal $9,926.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$9,926.00
$0.00
$9,926.00
Fringe Benefits
$25,844.00
NRS 2, NRS#
$0.00
CC Fire & Rescue
Subtotal $25,844.00
Travel
NRS 2, NRS 3
Equipment
Supplies
$10,000.00
Printed Material, Postage
$450.00
GPS UNIT
Subtotal $10,450.00
Contractual
Landowner Incentive
Other
ODF Salem indirect
Total Costs
$198,527.00
$89,527.00
$3,000.00
$106,000.00
$397,054.00
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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