FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2008-018
$200,000
$202,846
$402,846
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Chuck Johnson
Address: DNR, P.O. Box 190
City Colville
State Washington
Zip: 99114
Phone: 509-684-7474
Ext. 2714
Call Ahead for FAX:
FAX: 509-684-7484
Phone (Work/Cell): 509-995-7967
Email: chuck.johnson@dnr.wa.gov
Project Information
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Name of Project: Newport Fuels Reduction
Proposed Start Date: 07-01-08
Proposed End Date:
City: Newport
State:
County: Pend Oreille
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 48.118
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
11-30-09
Washington
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-117.053
Total Actual Project Acres: 400
Treatment
Acres Treatment
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Thinning
400
Mastication/Mowing
200
Treatment
Acres Treatment
Acres
1000
Hand Pile
200
HandPile Burn
200
Treatment
Acres Treatment
Acres
Cost Per Acre
0
0
Treatment (other)
Acres Treatment (other)
Acres
$ 402.85
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
Pend Oreille County CWPP
Name of Community at Newport
Risk:
Name of CWPP
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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.)
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.
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project.
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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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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)
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.
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.).
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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Project Longevity / Maintenance
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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.
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.)
This is a fuels reduction project. However, any merchantable products will be removed and hauled to
local mills, subject to prevailing market conditions. The most likely form of biomass removed would
be hew saw and pulpwood.
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. They are willing to work with the landowners to remove and
utilize any merchantable material.
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, but prices are currently $50.00 per ton.
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Landowners
Total
P.O. Co. LCG
Personnel
Administration
Monitoring
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$24,000.00
$0.00
$24,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,900.00
$3,900.00
$24,000.00
$3,900.00
$27,900.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$4,800.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$3,666.00
$5,323.00
$8,989.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,157.00
$1,157.00
$3,666.00
$6,480.00
$10,146.00
$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
$200,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $200,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$160,000.00
$0.00
$160,000.00
$0.00
$0
$0.00
$360,000.00
$0.00
$360,000.00
$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
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs
Travel
Perdiem
Vehicle
Equipment
Supplies
Contractual
Fuels Reduction
Other
Total Costs
$200,000.00
$37,789.00
$160,000.00
$5,057.00
$402,846.00
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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