Volunteer Fire Assistance

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grant, Financial Assistance, Technical AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$20,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Each annual $4 million tranche has a 4-yr period of availability
Program Description The Volunteer Fire Assistance program focuses on increasing the capacity of local fire departments to provide initial attack on wildfires by providing additional firefighter training and assistance to departments with purchasing equipment. Recipients match grants dollar-for-dollar to maximize the value of the Federal investment. Rural fire departments also play a key role in educating constituents about fire adaptation and mitigation and help meet expanded fire protection needs within the wildland urban interface. Together, these initiatives combine to create more fire-adapted communities.
Eligible Uses Excess personal property used by State and local fire forces receiving assistance.
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Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Credit AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Defense - Army Corps of EngineersAgency
$75,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Federal credit program to provide credit assistance to creditworthy borrowers for projects to maintain, upgrade, and repair dams identified in the National Inventory of Dams owned by non-Federal entities.
Eligible Uses All qualifying non-Federal dam safety projects under the Army Corps Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account program.
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Water-Related Environmental Infrastructure Assistance

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct FederalFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Defense - Army Corps of EngineersAgency
$200,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description The program funds engineering and construction of authorized environmental infrastructure projects which provides safe water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control to cities and towns to protect human health and safeguard the environment.
Eligible Uses Authorized environmental infrastructure projects
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Watershed And Flood Prevention Operations

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Technical and Financial AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$500,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Provides planning, design and construction of measures that address resource concerns in a watershed.
Eligible Uses Flood Prevention, Watershed Protection, Public Recreation, Public Fish and Wildlife, Agricultural Water Management, Municipal and Industrial Water Supply, or Water Quality Management.
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Wildfire

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
VariousFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of CommerceAgency
$50,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability 3 years
Program Description These funds will be used to support wildfire prediction, detection, observation, modeling, and forecasting.
Eligible Uses The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will procure mission-critical infrastructure, advanced operational systems, and accelerate the development and delivery of fire weather decision support tools, cloud-based software, and dissemination services.
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Wildfire Detection And Monitoring Equipment

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$5,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description The agency will procure and place wildfire detection and real-time monitoring equipment, such as sensors, cameras, and other relevant equipment in wildfire prone areas to enhance safety and awareness of wildfire risk for the public and first responders.
Eligible Uses Under development
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Wildfire Management - Fuels Management

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), and Contract(s)Funding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$878,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year)
Program Description To protect vulnerable communities from wildfire while preparing our communities and natural landscapes for a changing climate, through hazardous fuels management strategies, including mechanical thinning, precommercial thinning in young stands, timber harvesting, prescribed fire, and installation of control locations such as fuel breaks.
Eligible Uses Mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, developing potential control locations, including fuelbreaks, contracting or employing laborers to remove flammable vegetation on Federal Lands, and additional fuels management activities.
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Wildfire Management - Joint Fire Science Program with Department of Agriculture

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Interagency agreements, cooperative agreementsFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$10,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding Available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year)
Program Description Support science and research on wildland fire management issues that mitigate wildfire risk.
Eligible Uses Priority research to better understand wildfire risk and inform land practitioners on critical wildland fire management issues.
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Working Capital Fund

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Working Capital FundFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$100,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific fiscal years, each with a different period of availability
Program Description Working Capital Fund in support of contracts to restore ecological health on Federal lands
Eligible Uses Establishing a Working Capital Fund that may be accessed by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to fund requirements of contracts to restore ecological health on Federal lands.
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