Resilience
Department of Interior Wildfire Management - Preparedness
Agency NameDepartment of the Interior
Funding Amount$245,000,000.00
Bureau Name
Departmental Offices
Funding Mechanism
Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s) and/or Grant(s), possibly Contract(s)
New?
No
Funding Mechanism
Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s) and/or Grant(s), possibly Contract(s)
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year)
Recipients
Federal Agencies, State agencies, Counties, Cities/Townships, Tribal Governments, and Possibly Businesses
Program Description
The Preparedness Program funds a range of actions that helps the Federal government prepare to respond to wildland fire. These include hiring people, training them, tracking their qualifications, and planning our wildland fire response ahead of time. It also provides for the purchasing of equipment for early wildfire detection, real-time monitoring and radios to support interoperability with interagency partners; financial assistance to local communities to purchase slip-on tanks; and increases in firefighter pay and other firefighter workforce reforms.
Eligible Uses
To increase the compensation and number of Federal wildland firefighters to build a permanent, year-round workforce; increase the Nation's preparedness to fight wildfires through satellite detection and the procurement and placement of early-warning wildfire detection and real-time monitoring equipment; improve radio interoperability; increase training of youth, including Native youth, to accelerate the pace and scale of hazardous fuels treatments; and to provide financial assistance to local governments to purchase slip-on tanker units to ready trucks for firefighting.
Statutory Location
Division J, Title VI
Federal Cost Share Requirement
No non-Federal cost share required