The Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Program is designed to provide financial assistance to facilities that purchase and process byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects in areas at risk of unnaturally severe wildfire or insect or disease infestation through funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
Donor Name: Forest Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The intent is to substantially decrease the cost of conducting restoration projects involving vegetation removal on federal and Tribal lands and invest in surrounding communities. These ecosystem restoration byproducts could include trees and woody biomass harvested through timber sales, thinning, hazardous fuels reduction treatments, or other restoration management activities.
Funding Priorities
- The facility must procure high percentages (approximately 50% or greater) of raw materials from Federal or Tribal lands.
- Federal or Tribal land sources of feedstock have been identified as at risk for fire, insect, or disease and a high priority for ecological restoration.
- The project facility must be in close proximity to the Federal or Tribal lands from which byproducts are procured.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $20,000,000.
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000.
- Award Floor: $50,000.
Uses of funds
Project funding may be used for personnel (salary and fringe benefits), travel, equipment, supplies, contractual costs, and appropriate other expenses associated with projects to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood-processing facility in close proximity to federal or Tribal lands that need ecosystem restoration and will generate byproducts from the restoration activities.
- Requested funding and cooperator match must be utilized directly for the implementation of the proposed project.
- USDA Forest Service funds cannot be used to fund federal involvement in the project.
- Questions regarding costs should be directed to a Regional Wood Innovations Coordinator.
Eligibility Criteria
For-profit entities; state, local governments; Indian Tribes; school districts; communities, not-for-profit organizations; institutions of higher education; and special purpose districts (e.g., public utilities districts, fire districts, conservation districts, and ports).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
