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

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 Detection And Monitoring Equipment

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency

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

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
VariousFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of CommerceAgency
for fiscal year fiscal year 2022Funding 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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Watershed And Flood Prevention Operations

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Technical and Financial AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency

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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Water-Related Environmental Infrastructure Assistance

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct FederalFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Defense - Army Corps of EngineersAgency

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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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
Including $64 million for loans and $11 million for administration of the program.Funding 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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Volunteer Fire Assistance

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grant, Financial Assistance, Technical AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency

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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Tribal Climate Resilience - Community Relocation

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Contract/CompactFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Implementation of Community Relocation, Managed Retreat, or Protect-in-Place Actions to increase climate resilience.
Eligible Uses Funds are designed to support Tribes facing questions and decisions regarding managed retreat, expansion, protect-in-place, and relocation options due to threats from intensifying coastal or riverine erosion, flooding and permafrost degradation impacts, sea level rise, and other impacts. Assessment, monitoring, planning, design, and implementation (of actions identified in existing planning documents or with appropriate baseline data) are allowable. Activities should address climate change impacts which affect the viability of infrastructure and other resources at risk. Examples of planning activities can include vulnerability and risk assessments, design of expansion, protect-in-place or relocation activities; analysis of options; development of Tribal community mitigation efforts; design of emergency drills and exercises, and more.
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Tribal Climate Resilience - Adaptation Planning

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Contract/CompactFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Tribal Climate Adaptation programs provide support for climate resilient planning to help sustain Tribal ecosystems and natural and cultural resources, economies, infrastructure, human health, and safety.
Eligible Uses Funds may be used for trainings and workshops, vulnerability and risk assessment, supplementary monitoring for climate-related decision-making, scoping efforts, adaptation planning, travel support, ocean and coastal management planning, capacity building for adaptation planning, relocation, managed retreat, or protect-in-place assessment, planning, and design; and internships and youth engagement. Funding is not for routine monitoring programs or research.
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To Complete Or Initiate And Complete Studies That Were Authorized Prior To The Date Of This Act

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct FederalFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Defense - Army Corps of EngineersAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Funds studies to determine the engineering, economic feasibility of potential solutions to water and related land resources problems as well as preconstruction engineering and design
Eligible Uses Authorized studies and pre-construction engineering and design work of authorized projects.
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State Fire Assistance

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grant, Financial Assistance, Technical AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Each annual $17.6 million tranche has a four-year period of availability
Program Description Through the State Fire Assistance program, the Forest Service supports and assists State Foresters and local communities in building capacity for wildfire prevention, mitigation, control, and suppression on non-Federal lands. The program helps State agencies create more fire-adapted communities by implementing pre-fire prevention and mitigation programs and emphasizing pre-fire planning and risk reduction in the Wildland Urban Interface. The program funds important training in safer initial attack responses to wildfire that are also effective. Additionally, the program improves capacity to assist other Federal, State, and local agencies in aiding communities affected by fire and non-fire emergencies, such as hurricanes and floods
Eligible Uses Supporting States and local communities.
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State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
GrantFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Homeland SecurityAgency

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Varying amounts per fiscal year for the next four fiscal years: $200 million for fiscal year 2022, $400 million for fiscal year 2023, $300 million for fiscal year 2024, and $100 million for fiscal year 2025
Program Description The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program makes available Federal funds to State, local, and Tribal governments to address cybersecurity risks and cybersecurity threats to information systems that they own or operate. The Department of Homeland Security is also separately administering the statutory Tribal set-aside funding as its own Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program under this authority.
Eligible Uses Develop and revise cybersecurity plans; implement elements of the cybersecurity plan (including individual projects); address imminent cybersecurity threats, as confirmed by the Department of Homeland Secretary, acting through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director; grants management and administration (5 percent maximum); any other appropriate activity determined by the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, acting through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director.
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