Resilience

Wildfire Management - Fuels Management

Agency NameDepartment of the Interior
Funding Amount$878,000,000.00
Bureau Name Departmental Offices
Funding Mechanism Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), and Contract(s)
New? No
Funding Mechanism Direct Federal spending, possibly Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), and Contract(s)

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year)
Recipients Federal Agencies, State agencies, Tribal Governments, And Businesses
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.
Statutory Location Division J, Title VI
Federal Cost Share Requirement No non-Federal cost share required