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F O R O F F I C I A L U S E O N L Y
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2008-018
$200,000
$202,846
$402,846
Applicant/Organization Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Chuck Johnson
Address: DNR, P.O. Box 190
City Colville
Phone: 509-684-7474
FAX: 509-684-7484
Phone (Work/Cell): 509-995-7967
Email: chuck.johnson@dnr.wa.gov
State Washington Zip: 99114
Ext.
2714
Call Ahead for FAX:
Name of Project: Newport Fuels Reduction
Proposed Start Date: 07-01-08
City: Newport
County: Pend Oreille
Latitude (decimal degrees): 48.118
Proposed End Date: 11-30-09
State: Washington
Congressional District: 5
Longitude (decimal degrees): -117.053
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
Total Actual Project Acres: 400
Treatment
Thinning
Treatment
Hand Pile
Treatment
Treatment (other)
Acres
400
Acres
200
Acres
0
Acres
0
Treatment
Mastication/Mowing
Treatment
HandPile Burn
Treatment
Treatment (other)
Acres
200
Acres
200
Acres
0
Acres
0
Total Treatment Acres
1000
Cost Per Acre
$ 402.85
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 Pend Oreille County CWPP
Name of Community at
Risk:
Newport
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All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
Provide a brief overview of the project and the project area. (If applying for a fuels reduction project, identify vegetation types, fire regime.)
The desired outcome of this project is to help protect the community of Newport through a coordinated effort of fuels reduction projects across private and federal lands within the Wildland
Urban Interface (WUI) of Newport, WA.
This project focuses on the private lands prioritized in the Pend Oreille County CWPP for fuels reduction. These strategically located fuel breaks will modify fire size, intensity, and behavior; thereby reducing risk to lives, homes, businesses and natural resources. The created fuel breaks will assist firefighters in fire suppression, reduce costs, and increase firefighter safety. The Pend Oreille
County CWPP identified mitigation and action items that needed to be implemented in order to achieve the goals identified. Funding this project will help to accomplish those goals. The CWPP process has increased community awareness and landowners are interested in participating in fuels reduction projects in the Newport community.
The project will use the proven-successful cost-share approach in which the landowner applicant provides a signifcant portion of the treatment costs. Therefore each grant dollar is stretched to provide maximum on-the-ground results.
The project proposes to thin, prune and remove fuel ladders using chainsaws and masticators.
The fuel type in the project area consists of Ponderosa Pine, Douglas-fir and Lodgepole Pine with a dense understory of regeneration. The area would be classified as Fire Regime 3, Condition Class 2.
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All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
Provide a timeline for the project.
Spring 2008: Targeted Promotion and landowner outreach/recruitment.
Summer/Fall 2008: Field visits, project layout and fuels reduction initiation.
Summer/Fall 2009: Fuels reduction projects and monitoring are completed.
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All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
Provide a brief scope of work which clearly describes how grant funds will be spent. (This should be more specific than the project description)
This project will use NFP grant funding to thin, prune lower live limbs, remove fuel ladders and dispose of slash by chipping and masticating on favorable slopes and hand piling and burning on unfavorable slopes.
Project administration, environmental planning, overhead, benefits and monitoring will be provided by DNR at no cost. This allows the maximum amount of grant funding to be used for on-the-ground fuels reduction work by local contractors and landowners. The costs shown in the budget are from estimates of contract work provided on lands adjacent to this proposal, from other similar projects administered, and from other contracts awarded by the DNR.
This project is immediately adjacent to the U.S.F.S. Upper & Lower Wolf fuels project occurring in
Newport. Grant funding, combined with the Federal fuels project, will maximize area treated and protection of the community. Some private landowners in the project area are also currently treating hazardous fuels.
The project will also protect important infrastructure that contributes to the area economy. The cost of the project compared to the potential benefit of having contiguous fuel breaks in this strategic area across all ownerships is well justified. Costs per acre will be less, and acres treated will be more, depending on how much of the acreage we are able to treat with machinery versus hand crew treatments.
DNR already has an operational cost-share program which has proven to be very cost-effective.
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All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
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.).
Participating landowners: cost-share and maintain practices for a minimum of ten years
DNR: program administration and technical assistance to participants
Colville N.F.: Consultant and public outreach
WSU Extension: public outreach, advertising, and monitoring
P.O. County Fire Districts: consultant and public outreach
P.O. County Conservation District: landowner outreach
P.O. County Emergency Management: consultant and public outreach
P.O. County Master Gardeners Program: public outreach
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All information for the project must fit into the space provided below. Attachments will not be considered by the review committee.
Clearly describe how the proposed treatments will be maintained over time.
Our Landowner Assistance Form must be signed by the landowner before any fuels treatment can occur. The form contains standard language requiring the practice to be maintained for a minimum of ten years and is consistent with other Federal cost-share programs. It is the expectation of the Local
Coordinating Group that after the area has been treated mechanically, it will be much more efficient to maintain the stand by use of prescribed fire, perhaps in conjunction with adjacent USFS activities.
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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.
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.)
This is a fuels reduction project. However, if markets stay as strong as they are currently, any merchantable products will be removed and hauled to local mills.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization.
Vaagen's Wood Products has already expressed an interest in smaller diameter material from fuels reduction projects in NE Washington.
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated).
Biomass removed is likely to be in the form of hew saw and pulp wood material. Value will depend on market conditions at the time of removal.
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency Applicant
Matching Share
Landowners P.O. Co. LCG Total
Personnel
Administration
Monitoring
$0.00 $24,000.00 $24,000.00
Subtotal $0.00 $24,000.00 $0.00 $3,900.00 $27,900.00
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs $0.00 $4,800.00 $4,800.00
$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Subtotal $0.00 $4,800.00 $0.00 $0.00 $4,800.00
Travel
Perdiem
Vehicle
$0.00 $3,666.00 $3,666.00
Subtotal $0.00 $8,989.00 $0.00 $1,157.00 $10,146.00
Equipment
$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
Supplies
$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
Contractual
Fuels Reduction $200,000.00 $0.00 $160,000.00 $0.00 $360,000.00
$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0 $0.00
Subtotal $200,000.00 $0.00 $160,000.00 $0.00 $360,000.00
Other
Total Costs
$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
$200,000.00 $37,789.00
$160,000.00
$5,057.00
$402,846.00
Project (Program) Income
1
(using deductive alternative)
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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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