ID Number 2007-112
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
A (State)
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Type of Applicant:
Email:
Phone: mark.gray@wadnr.gov
360-902-1754 FAX: 360-902-1781 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 (Name and Title):
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Project Coordinator
Mr. Chuck Johnson, Landowner Assistance Manager
DNR, NE Region
Email:
Phone: chuck.johnson@wadnr.gov
509-684-7474 FAX: 509-684-7484
Project Information
Please Call Ahead for FAX: Off
Project Title: Clark Creek Community Fuels Project
Project Location:
County:
Clark Creek, unincorporated
Pend
Oreille
Congressional District: 5 Latitude: 48.607
Longitude: -117.294
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 protect the community at Clark Creek through a coordinated effort of fuels reduction projects across private and federal lands within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) in the Community. 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 Clark Creek community.
Name of CWPP:
Name of Communit(y/ies) at Risk:
Proposed Project Start Date:
Pend Oreille County CWPP
Clark Creek, unincorporated
06/01/2007 Proposed Project End Date:
Federal Funding Request:
Are you submitting multiple projects?
$120,000.00
Yes
Total Project Cost:
If YES indicate the relationship of the projects to one another:
If YES, please list the titles of projects by priority and briefly explain their relationship.
The Pend Oreille LCG is submitting 6 fuels proposals with the DNR as the applicant. This is the priority #6 Proposal.
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this proposal: Organization/Jurisdiction:
Pend Oreille Valley R.D., Colville National Forest
Email cwright@fs.fed.us
11/30/2008
$144,500.00
A (Stand Alone)
1) Carl Wright, FMO
Phone
2) Eric Trimble, Fuels Specialist
509-447-9281
Phone 509-447-9281
3) Loren Torgerson, Assistant Region Manager
Phone 509-684-7474
Pend Oreille Valley R.D., Colville National For.
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 #6 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
Treatment
Hand Pile Burn
Acres
120
Acres
120
Treatment
Hand Pile
Treatment
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Treatment
Pruning
Acres
120
Treatment
Ladder Fuel Removal
Project Evaluation Criteria
Acres
120
120
Acres
Acres
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:
Clark Creek is a community with minimal fire protection, in need of hazardous fuels reduction. The neighborhood is 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. These fuel breaks will protect lives, homes, businesses, natural resources and critical infrastructure at risk.

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 majority of all slash created by thinning, pruning and fuel ladder removal will be chipped 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 Sullivan Lake fuels treatment project, provides a treated area that can effectively modify fire behavior by keeping fire on the ground where it can safely and effectively be controlled.
C.
Explain how the project is designed to reduce smoke production impacts that affect public health. (10 points)
Response:
Some of the slash created by the fuels reduction activities on this project will be chipped. If slash is piled for burning, it will be allowed to cure for one season prior to burning. Piles will be free of non-combustable 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 and broadcast 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 the
Clark Creek Community. 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 across private lands that, combined with the USFS
Sullivan Lake project, will protect the community of Clark Creek 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 120 acres of thinning, pruning, ladder fuel removal, and chipping. 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 Sullivan Lake fuels projects occurring in the Clark Creek 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.

Project Planning
Tasks
Acquire Funding
Environmental Review and RFP Preparation
Project Implementation
Monitoring and Project Reports
Project Implementation (if not completed in 2007)
June 2007
June - July 2007
July - December 2007
July - December 2007
May - November 2008
Project Work Form
Time Frame
February 2006 - June 2007
Responsible Party
DNR, Cons. Dist. and CWPP Committee
DNR
DNR and Cons. Dist.
DNR, Cons. Dist., Contractors, Landowners and
CWPP Committee
DNR, Cons. Dist., Contractors and CWPP
Committee
DNR, Cons. Dist., Contractors, Landowners and
CWPP Committee

Cost Category
Description
Personnel
Administration
Environmental Review
Federal
Agency
Project Budget
$9,500.00
$0.00
Applicant
$15,000.00
$1,000.00
P.O. Co. RFD
Partner 1
$500.00
$0.00
Partner 2
$0.00
$0.00
Partner 3
$0.00
$0.00
Total
$25,000.00
$1,000.00
Subtotal $9,500.00 $16,000.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $26,000.00
Fringe Benefits
Indirect Costs $2,000.00
$0.00
$3,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $2,000.00 $3,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $5,000.00
Travel
Mileage and Per diem $500.00
$0.00
$1,500.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
$0.00
Subtotal $500.00 $1,500.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $2,500.00
Equipment
Laptop and GPS $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
Subtotal $0.00 $1,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,000.00
Supplies
Prevention Materials $0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00 $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $500.00
Contractual
Fuels Management $108,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$108,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $108,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $108,000.00
Other
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
Subtotal $0.00 $1,500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,500.00
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income 1
(using deductive alternative)
$120,000.00
$0.00
$23,500.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00 $144,500.00
$0.00 $0.00
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.