ID Number 2007-115
Fuels Treatment Projects Application
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
City of Powers
Type of Applicant:
C (Municipal)
Email:
cityofpowers@msn.com
Phone:
541-439-3331
FAX:
541-439-5555
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
Off
Please Call Ahead for FAX:
Off
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
P.O. Box 250 Powers, OR 97466
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Mr. Ben McMakin, City Manager
Organization/Jurisdiction:
City of Powers
Email:
cityofpowers@msn.com
Phone:
541-439-3331
FAX:
541-439-5555
Project Information
Project Title:
South Fork Municiple Watershed Fuels Treatment Project
Project Location:
South Fork of the Coquille and Powers, OR
County:
Coos
Congressional District:
4
Latitude:
42.891006
Longitude:
124.06641
State the desired outcome in relation to NFP Goals and the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). Project Objectives:
The desired outcome of the project is to strategically apply 100 acres of fuels treatments to help protect the municipal watershed and provide better
defensibility of the Powers community from future fire events such as the Biscuit fire of 2002 and Blossom fire of 2005. Fuels treatments will reduce fire
severity by decreasing fireline intensities and rates of spread by removing or modifying biomass, reducing ladder fuels and controlling noxious weeds. A
variety of individual or combined treatments (hand, mechanical, spraying, and prescribed fire) will be used to accomplish municipal watershed and
community protection measures. Treatments will be used to reduce/modify fire behavior and keep fire on the ground where it is more manageable.
Treatments will be applied to best protect the health and safety of the community and provide the least impact to on site resources.
Name of CWPP:
Coos County Fire Management Plan
Name of Communit(y/ies) at Risk:
Powers, Oregon
Proposed Project Start Date:
07/01/2006
Proposed Project End Date:
06/30/2008
Federal Funding Request:
$110,960.00
Total Project Cost:
$128,210.00
No
Are you submitting multiple projects?
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.
Name of Federal, State or Tribal contact with whom you coordinated this
proposal:
Organization/Jurisdiction:
1) Carl Linderman, District Ranger
US Forest Service, Powers Ranger District
Phone
541-439-6200
2) Earl Burke, FMO
Phone
Email clinderman@fs.fed.us
Bureau of Land Management, Coos Bay
541-751-4469
Email Earl_Burke@or.blm.gov
3)
Phone
Email
Project Planning Information
Name of Local Coordinating Group:
Southfork Municiple Watershed 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?
Partners worked at a high level of coordination and extended existing strategic plans.
List federal lands that are adjacent to the project and proximity.
Siskiyou National Forest, 5 miles; BLM lands in city limits
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?
No
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?
No
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres:
Treatment
Thinning
Acres
50
Treatment
Crushing
Acres
50
Treatment
Lop and Scatter
Acres
25
Treatment
Seeding
Acres
15
Treatment
Acres
0
If you have a treatment type other than standard types above:
Acres
0
Treatment
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:
Fuels treatment will benefit not only the resources of the municipal watershed but increase the defensibility of the
approximately 320 inhabitable structures and 50 outbuildings within the community. Infrastructure to be protected
includes individual homes and businesses, school district buildings, and other structures. The facilities are north of
the half million acre Biscuit Fire of 2002 and Northwest of the 15,000 acre Blossom Fire of 2005. Given normal
weather patterns these two fire could have adversely impacted the South Fork Coquille municipal watershed and the
community of Powers.
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:
Fuels treatments will be applied to create buffer zones around homes and other structures, noxious weed control,
ladder fuels reduction, and thinning by hand and mechanized equipment, and prescribed fire. Noxious Weed
treatments include a combination of treatments: pulling, spraying, slashing, and mowing. The pre-commercial material
will be utilized for secondary contruction of furniture or firewood. The remainder will be lopped and scattered or
hauled to a disposal site to be recycled as. The removal with be throughout the year and will be done at the time of
least ancillary damage.
C. Explain how the project is designed to reduce smoke production impacts that affect public health. (10 points)
Response:
The fuels reduction treatment will create a buffer zone for future fires, reducing particlate matter that might be
generated by such a wildfire. Although 12 miles away, the Blossom Fire of Summer 2005 burned for two months and
produced particulate matter in the Powers area.
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:
It is anticipated that this project will provide nine part-time, year round positions. This project extends job training
efforts underway by partnerships developed with Coos County, the Siskiyou Resource Advisory Committee, and
others. One of the goals of this project is to transition these individuals into opportunitites created through
Stewardship Contracting efforts currently underway and other entrepreneurial efforts.
B. Will biomass that is produced by the project be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much? (10 points)
Response:
Vegetative products and by products from the fuels and defensibility projects will provide a variety of biomass
opportunities such as secondary manufacturing of rustic home furnishings (by the Building Trades program, a local
out-of-school job training program) and other small forest products, firewood, and hog fuel economy for the local
community. Selling the home furnishings is a sustainability strategy for this student employment training and future
jobs.
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:
Landowners, from the city and adjacent rural areas, have participated in strategic plan development for the Powers
Action Team, the Powers Volunteer Fire Department, and in steps leading up to this application. The Powers Ranger
District informed the PAT and the City about the availability of these funds. USFS and BLM staff provided assistance
in developing this application and will provide assistance in implementing the project.
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:
Match comes from the South Coast Business Employment Corporation in the form of two-week work readiness
training. The value of the training is $125 per participant, $1000. Partial salary support will be provided to the Project
Director through the Powers Community Learning Partnership, $12,900. Equipment, use of a truck and tractor, will be
provided by the Powers School District and Native Species Center, $3,750.
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:
This project provides employment training and experience for young adults in the Powers area. This is an extension of
existing efforts. Costs for salaries and equipment are consistant with those from the other projects and are based on a
history of actual expenses from similar projects. The cost per acre is $837, based on the grant dollars requested. The
total salary request is $74,496 with fringe at $24,929. This includes six .5 FTE crew members at $7.50 per hour;
one .5 FTE supervisor at $12 per hour, and .3 FTE of a project coordinator at $20.59 per hour. Equipment purchase
includes the following: equipment trailer $2,500; weedeaters $900; chain saw $1000; handtools, 600; misc $1000. No
overhead is charged to the project. Project related administrative costs include the book keeping and auditing related
expense. Together, these are included at $2,600. Partner in-kind and matching funds are 14% of the total. Partner
match comes from the following sources: Project supervision .2 FTE at $20,59 per hour - partner Powers Community
Learning Partnership; Work readiness training and partial salary for on-the-job training, $125 per person - partner
South Coast Business Employment Center; Truck and tractor usage, $3,750 - partner Native Species Center at Powers
High School.
Project Work Form
Tasks
Formalize local coordinating group plan
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Notice of Award – May 2006
Southfork Municiple Watershed Coordinating
Group
Coordinate project proposal with federal, county,
and other area partners
June - December 2006
Project Coordinator and Southfork Municiple
Watershed Coordinating Group
Evaluate project sites and educate project
landowners.
June – December 2006
Project Coordinator and local fire department staff.
Publicize project and seek additional input from
landowners
June – May 2007
Project Coordinator and members
Advertise, interview, hire, and train PACG line
crew.
May – June 2007
Coordinator, with South Coast Business
Employment Corporation’s Career Consultant
Implement fuel treatment projects.
June 2007 – June 2008
Crews, local contractors and crews, and landowners.
Increase awareness of program through community
and public meetings and media
June 2007 – June 2008
Project Coordinator
Provide project accomplishment report.
By August 2008
Project Coordinator & Grant Administrator.
Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
SCBEC
PHS
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Total
Personnel
Line Crew & Super
$59,508.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$59,508.00
Project Coordinor
$12,900.00
$0.00
$0.00
$8,600.00
$0.00
$21,500.00
$72,408.00
$0.00
$0.00
$8,600.00
$0.00
$81,008.00
$17,852.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$17,852.00
$6,450.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,300.00
$0.00
$10,750.00
$24,302.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,300.00
$0.00
$28,602.00
$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
Trailer
$2,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,500.00
Tools
$3,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,500.00
$6,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$6,000.00
$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
Rental
$3,500.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$3,500.00
Misc
$4,350.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$3,750.00
$0.00
$9,100.00
$7,850.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$3,750.00
$0.00
$12,600.00
$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
$110,560.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$16,650.00
$0.00
$128,210.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal
Fringe Benefits
Line Crew & Super
Project Coordinator
Subtotal
Travel
Subtotal
Equipment
Subtotal
Supplies
Subtotal
Contractual
Subtotal
Other
Subtotal
Total Costs
Project (Program) Income 1
(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.