ID Number 2007-109
Fuels Treatment Projects Application
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Type of Applicant:
A (State)
Email:
mark.gray@wadnr.gov
Phone:
360-902-1754
FAX:
360-902-1781
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
Off
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
Off
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
1111 Washington Street SE PO Box 47037 Olympia, WA 98504-7037
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Mr. Chuck Johnson, Landowner Assistance Manager
Organization/Jurisdiction:
DNR, Northeast Region
Email:
chuck.johnson@wadnr.gov
Phone:
509-684-7474
FAX:
509-684-7484
Project Information
Project Title:
Newport Community Fuels Reduction Project
Project Location:
Newport
County:
Pend Oreille Congressional District:
5
Latitude:
48.18
Longitude:
-117.042
State the desired outcome in relation to NFP Goals and the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). Project Objectives:
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 throughout the Newport community.
Name of CWPP:
Pend Oreille County CWPP
Name of Communit(y/ies) at Risk:
Newport
Proposed Project Start Date:
06/01/2007
Proposed Project End Date:
11/30/2008
Federal Funding Request:
$200,000.00
Total Project Cost:
$224,500.00
Are you submitting multiple projects?
Yes
If YES indicate the relationship of the projects to one
another:
A (Stand Alone)
If YES, please list the titles of projects by priority and briefly explain their relationship.
The Pend Oreille County LCG is submitting 6 proposals with DNR as the applicant. This is the priority #3 project.
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal:
Organization/Jurisdiction:
1) Carl Wright, FMO
Pend Oreille Valley R.D., Colville National Forest
Phone
509-447-9281
Pend Oreille Valley R.D., Colville National For.
2) Eric Trimble, Fuels Specialist
Phone
509-447-9281
3) Loren Torgerson, Assistant Region Manager
Phone
Email cwright@fs.fed.us
509-684-7474
Email etrimble@fs.fed.us
DNR, Northeast Region
Email loren.torgerson@wadnr.gov
Project Planning Information
Name of Local Coordinating Group:
Pend Oreille County Local Coordinating Group
For this project, explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning, through a "Local Coordination Group." If you have not worked with a
local coordination group, why not?
This is a collaborative proposal by the Pend Oreille County LCG and is the #3 priority project.
List federal lands that are adjacent to the project and proximity.
US Forest Service, Pend Oreille Valley Ranger District
A) Is there a current hazardous fuels treatment or one that is planned in the next three years on federal land that is adjacent to this project?
Yes
B) Specifically is this project adjacent to a current prescribed burn project or one that is planned in the next three years on Forest Service lands?
Yes
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres:
Treatment
Thinning
Acres
200
Treatment
Mastication/Mowing
Acres
150
Treatment
Hand Pile
Acres
50
Treatment
Hand Pile Burn
Acres
50
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Treatment
Pruning
Acres
200
Treatment
Ladder Fuel Removal
Acres
200
Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following criteria. Be sure you address every one briefly, yet thoroughly.
1. Reducing Hazardous Fuels (40 points)
A. Describe the community infrastructure that will be protected. This should include how this project implements all or part of the CWPP strategy. (15
points)
Response:
Newport is the County seat and largest city of Pend Oreille County. The community is completely surrounded by
heavily forested areas and has real needs for hazardous fuels reduction, especially adjacent to USFS ownership. The
neighborhoods are served by a network of power lines that pass through forested areas and across ownerships. This
project will be a coordinated effort among many landowners to treat hazardous fuels identified in the Pend Oreille
County CWPP as high priorities for community protection. The project will protect lives, homes, businesses, and
critical infrastructure.
B. Explain how the proposal reduces fire behavior in high hazard areas by describing the fuels to be disposed or removed, the techniques and timing of the
treatments, and the treatment location relative to the values to be protected. (15 points)
Response:
The slash created by thinning, pruning and fuel ladder removal will be chipped and/or masticated on private land
along main transportation routes, powerline corridors, and common property lines near homes in the community.
Creation of strategic fuel breaks in the community itself, in cooperation with the USFS Upper & Lower Wolf fuels
treatment projects, provides a treated area that can effectively modify fire behavior by keeping fire on the ground
where it can safely and effectively be controlled. The treatment area is immediately adjacent to the Forest Service
project and inside Newport.
C. Explain how the project is designed to reduce smoke production impacts that affect public health. (10 points)
Response:
Most of the slash created by the fuels reduction activities on this project will be chipped and/or masticated. If any
slash is piled for burning, it will be allowed to cure for one season prior to burning. Piles will be free of noncombustable debris and dirt. Permits will be obtained and conditions followed. Smoke management approval may be
necessary. Contacts with law enforcement and adjacent landowners will be made. Pile burning will occur when
conditions are such that the risk of escape is low. Resources will be available for immediate suppression if necessary.
2. Increasing Local Capacity (20 points)
A. How would the implementation of the proposed project improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable
economic activity assuming that these grant funds would be used as "seed monies" for future projects. i.e. How many community supported jobs would be
created and for how long would they expect to last? (10 points)
Response:
Implementation of the proposal will contribute to the local economy by providing jobs for local contractors. Because
this proposal is "seed money" for a much larger project, these jobs will last long after this proposal is complete. This
proposal helps pay a portion of the cost of fuels reduction activities planned and currently being accomplished in and
around Newport. This proposal also pays for the Pend Oreille County Conservation District to co-administer the grant.
B. Will biomass that is produced by the project be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much? (10 points)
Response:
Any merchantable products will be marketed. Some biomass removed from site will be in the form of firewood. Some
of the biomass may be used as livestock bedding and/or chipped/shredded and spread on site for nutrient recycling.
The community is open to any biomass removal that Forest Concepts might propose.
3. Demonstrating Community and Intergovernmental Collaboration (20 Points)
A. Describe how this project has been collaborated and coordinated with adjacent landowners, local/state/Tribal/federal agencies, and community groups
such as neighborhood associations. (10 points)
Response:
The Pend Oreille County CWPP was completed as a collaborative process, advocated by local community members
and State and Federal Agencies. Working within the LCG, the community is striving to meet the goals of the CWPP.
This project will help to complete strategically located fuel breaks on private lands that, combined with the USFS
Upper & Lower Wolf Fuels projects, will protect the community of Newport and associated critical infrastructure.
B. Describe the communities/partners contributions to this project such as: cash or in-kind contributions, cost share agreements, equipment, or labor
(including volunteer work). (10 points)
Response:
This fuel break will compliment several landowners and USFS treatment projects in the vicinity. DNR will provide
administration at no cost to the grant. All grant funding will go to work on the ground to complete the cooperative
fuels break. Local County RFD will provide volunteer time to the project. P.O. County Conservation District will be
paid to learn the NFP Grant Processes.
4. Managing Cost Efficiency (20 points)
Discuss the process you used to arrive at your cost structure for the main Project Budget areas such as personnel, equipment, supplies and other (i.e.
overhead). In your response please justify: cost per acre, purchase of equipment, percent of overhead, percent of partner or matching funds, and portion of
administration cost. (20 points)
Response:
Tasks requiring funding include 200 acres of thinning, pruning, ladder fuel removal, and a mix of chipping and
masticating. Project and 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 operators. Pend Oreille County Conservation District will be paid to co-administer the project in order
to learn NFP Grant Procedures. The amount of costs shown in the budget are from $/ac estimates of contract work
provided on USFS lands adjacent to this proposal, from other similar projects administered, and from other contracts
awarded by the DNR. This project will tie in with the USFS Upper & Lower Wolf fuels projects occurring in
Newport. 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.
Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Project Planning
February 2006 - June 2007
Acquire Funding
June 2007
Environmental Review and RFP Preparation
June - July 2007
Responsible Party
DNR, Cons. Dist. and CWPP Committee
DNR
DNR and Cons. Dist.
Project Implementation
July - December 2007
DNR, Cons. Dist., Contractors, Landowners and
CWPP Committee
Monitoring and Project Reports
July - December 2007
DNR, Cons. Dist., Contractors and CWPP
Committee
Project Implementation (if not completed in 2007)
May - November 2008
DNR, Cons. Dist., Contractors, Landowners and
CWPP Committee
Project Budget
P.O. County
RFD
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Total
Personnel
$15,500.00
$15,000.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$31,000.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$15,500.00
$16,000.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$32,000.00
$4,000.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$7,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,000.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$7,000.00
$500.00
$1,500.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$1,500.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$180,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$180,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$180,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$180,000.00
Advertising
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
GIS Support
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$200,000.00
$23,500.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$224,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Administration
Environmental Review
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs
Subtotal
Travel
Mileage and Per diem
Subtotal
Equipment
Laptop and GPS
Subtotal
Supplies
Prevention Materials
Subtotal
Contractual
Fuels Management
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income 1
(using deductive alternative)
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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