Opportunity Information: Apply for L20AS00074
The Montana/Dakotas Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L20AS00074) is a discretionary Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior focused on reducing the risk and impacts of catastrophic wildfire in the Montana and Dakotas region. The program is grounded in a risk-based approach aligned with the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, with an emphasis on three connected goals: restoring and maintaining fire-resilient landscapes, helping build fire-adapted communities, and improving the ability to respond effectively to wildfire. In practical terms, the opportunity supports projects that plan and carry out hazardous fuels reduction and related community assistance activities, especially in and around Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas where homes, infrastructure, and public safety are most directly threatened.
The grant is designed to fund work that both treats fuels on the ground and strengthens community readiness. Priority activities include planning and implementing strategies that protect communities and critical infrastructure while enhancing, restoring, or maintaining forest and rangeland plant communities, including habitats important to special status species and other high-value resources that are vulnerable to wildfire. It also supports efforts to improve public understanding of wildfire risk and to encourage locally driven solutions through community planning, education, mitigation work, technical assistance, and fuels management on both federal and non-federal lands. A major theme throughout the opportunity is collaboration: applicants are encouraged to build coordination and partnerships among federal, state, tribal, and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and private entities so that fuels treatments are planned and implemented across broader landscapes rather than in isolated patches.
The program further emphasizes applying fuels treatment strategies that are demonstrably effective at mitigating wildfire impacts and that contribute to safer, more successful wildfire management. This includes coordinating with adjacent landowners and cooperators so treatment areas connect logically across boundaries, and building in the expectation that projects will include monitoring and maintenance so treatments remain effective over time. In addition to wildfire risk reduction, the opportunity explicitly ties projects to economic and community benefits by encouraging expanded local capacity and increased local and small business employment opportunities connected to fuels work, education, and community preparedness activities.
Expected outcomes are framed in five main categories: completing fuels management activities on federal and non-federal land; developing and delivering fire education, training, and community action plans or programs; conducting Community Wildfire Protection assessments and related planning activities; expanding community capability in ways that also support local employment; and developing and implementing both short- and long-term monitoring and maintenance plans. From the BLM perspective, the public benefit is a measurable reduction in hazardous fuels, improved coordination among partners, and better-informed landowners and residents who understand wildfire prevention and mitigation options, ultimately lowering the likelihood that wildfires become destructive to communities and costly to suppress.
This opportunity also references Secretarial Order 3372, which calls for active management of Department of the Interior lands to reduce wildfire risks, better protect people, communities, wildlife habitat, and watersheds, and support the recovery of damaged landscapes. Administrative details included an award ceiling of $250,000, an anticipated three awards, and an open application window from April 6, 2020 through June 4, 2020 (with two round deadlines: May 5, 2020 and June 4, 2020, both at 4:30 PM Eastern). Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning applications were open to a broad range of entity types, subject to any additional eligibility notes in the full announcement.Apply for L20AS00074
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Montana/Dakotas Fuels Management & Community Fire Assistance Program Activities" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.228.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 06, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 04, 2020 Open from April 6, 2020 to June 4, 2020, 430 PM EST Round One Applications are Due May 5, 2020, 430 PM EST Round Two Applications are Due June 4, 2020, 430 PM EST. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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FAQs: Montana/Dakotas Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (L20AS00074)
What is this funding opportunity?
This opportunity is the Montana/Dakotas Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (Funding Opportunity Number L20AS00074). It is a discretionary Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
What is the main purpose of the program?
The program focuses on reducing the risk and impacts of catastrophic wildfire in the Montana and Dakotas region. It supports projects that reduce hazardous fuels and strengthen community readiness, especially where wildfire threatens homes, infrastructure, and public safety.
What geographic area does this opportunity cover?
The opportunity is focused on the Montana and Dakotas region.
What kinds of projects does the program support?
The program supports planning and on-the-ground implementation of hazardous fuels reduction and related community assistance activities. It particularly emphasizes work in and around Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas.
What is the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), and why is it emphasized?
The WUI refers to areas where homes and other development are close to or intermixed with wildland vegetation. The opportunity emphasizes WUI areas because they are where communities and critical infrastructure are most directly threatened by wildfire.
What are the three major goals this program aligns with?
The opportunity is aligned with the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy and emphasizes three connected goals: (1) restoring and maintaining fire-resilient landscapes, (2) helping build fire-adapted communities, and (3) improving the ability to respond effectively to wildfire.
What types of fuels management or treatment activities are prioritized?
Priority activities include planning and implementing strategies that protect communities and critical infrastructure while enhancing, restoring, or maintaining forest and rangeland plant communities. The opportunity emphasizes using fuels treatment strategies that are demonstrably effective at mitigating wildfire impacts.
Does the opportunity support work on both federal and non-federal land?
Yes. The expected outcomes include completing fuels management activities on federal and non-federal land, and the program encourages coordination across boundaries so treatments connect logically.
How does the program address community education and preparedness?
The opportunity supports improving public understanding of wildfire risk and encourages locally driven solutions through community planning, education, mitigation work, technical assistance, and community preparedness activities.
Are Community Wildfire Protection assessments and planning activities supported?
Yes. One of the expected outcome categories is conducting Community Wildfire Protection assessments and related planning activities.
Does the program require or encourage collaboration and partnerships?
Collaboration is a major theme. Applicants are encouraged to coordinate and build partnerships among federal, state, tribal, and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and private entities, with an emphasis on planning and implementing treatments across broader landscapes rather than isolated areas.
How important is coordination with adjacent landowners or neighboring jurisdictions?
The opportunity emphasizes coordinating with adjacent landowners and cooperators so treatment areas connect across boundaries and contribute to safer, more successful wildfire management.
Are monitoring and maintenance included in the program expectations?
Yes. The opportunity includes the expectation that projects will include monitoring and maintenance so treatments remain effective over time. An expected outcome category is developing and implementing both short- and long-term monitoring and maintenance plans.
How does this program define public benefit?
From the BLM perspective, the public benefit includes measurable reduction in hazardous fuels, improved coordination among partners, and better-informed landowners and residents who understand wildfire prevention and mitigation options, lowering the likelihood that wildfires become destructive to communities and costly to suppress.
Does the opportunity consider ecological values like habitat and special status species?
Yes. Priority activities include enhancing, restoring, or maintaining forest and rangeland plant communities, including habitats important to special status species and other high-value resources vulnerable to wildfire.
Does this program connect wildfire risk reduction to economic or workforce benefits?
Yes. The opportunity explicitly encourages expanded local capacity and increased local and small business employment opportunities connected to fuels work, education, and community preparedness activities.
What are the expected outcomes of funded projects?
Expected outcomes are framed in five main categories: (1) completing fuels management activities on federal and non-federal land, (2) developing and delivering fire education, training, and community action plans or programs, (3) conducting Community Wildfire Protection assessments and related planning activities, (4) expanding community capability in ways that also support local employment, and (5) developing and implementing both short- and long-term monitoring and maintenance plans.
How many awards were anticipated?
The opportunity anticipated three awards.
What is the maximum award amount (award ceiling)?
The award ceiling listed in the opportunity was $250,000.
Who is eligible to apply?
Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning the opportunity was open to a broad range of entity types, subject to any additional eligibility notes in the full announcement.
What is the application period for this opportunity?
The open application window was listed as April 6, 2020 through June 4, 2020.
Were there multiple deadlines (rounds) within the application window?
Yes. Two round deadlines were listed: May 5, 2020 and June 4, 2020, both at 4:30 PM Eastern.
What kind of award instrument is this (grant, contract, cooperative agreement)?
It is described as a discretionary BLM cooperative agreement.
How is this opportunity connected to national wildfire policy or directives?
The opportunity references Secretarial Order 3372, which calls for active management of Department of the Interior lands to reduce wildfire risks, better protect people, communities, wildlife habitat, and watersheds, and support recovery of damaged landscapes. It is also aligned with the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy.
What does "risk-based approach" mean in the context of this program?
Based on the opportunity description, the program is grounded in a risk-based approach that targets work where it can most effectively reduce the likelihood and impacts of catastrophic wildfire, with particular attention to WUI areas, critical infrastructure, high-value resources, and coordinated, effective treatment strategies.
What kinds of community assistance activities are included?
Community assistance activities described include community planning, education, mitigation work, technical assistance, development of community action plans or programs, and other efforts to improve public understanding of wildfire risk and prevention/mitigation options.
Does the opportunity focus only on doing treatments, or also on keeping them effective over time?
It addresses both. In addition to implementing treatments, the program emphasizes monitoring and maintenance so treatments remain effective over time, including both short- and long-term plans.
What does the opportunity mean by planning across broader landscapes?
It encourages applicants to plan and implement fuels treatments in coordination with partners and adjacent landowners so projects connect across boundaries, rather than being implemented as isolated patches that do not add up to larger risk reduction benefits.
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