Opportunity Information: Apply for L17AS00184
The BLM OR/WA Community Assistance in Wildland Urban Interface grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L17AS00184) is a Bureau of Land Management program under the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at helping communities that face elevated risk from catastrophic wildland fire, particularly in the wildland-urban interface where homes, infrastructure, and public lands meet. The effort supports the broader goals of the National Fire Plan by strengthening local capacity to prevent, prepare for, and reduce the impacts of wildfire through coordinated planning, targeted fuels treatment work, and public-facing education.
At its core, the program is designed to build and expand community-driven wildfire mitigation programs. That includes helping communities assess local fire risk, plan mitigation actions, and deliver education to residents and homeowners about steps that reduce ignition potential and improve defensible space. Beyond planning and outreach, the opportunity emphasizes on-the-ground hazardous fuels reduction activities, along with the monitoring and maintenance needed to keep treatments effective over time. The intent is to reduce fuel loads and fire intensity in high-risk areas so that wildfire poses less of a threat to communities and to nearby natural resources, especially in places on or adjacent to federal lands where coordinated treatment priorities matter.
A key theme of the opportunity is partnership and coordination. The program seeks to improve how local, state, and federal land management agencies work together with private landowners to prioritize fuels treatments in a way that makes sense across boundaries. In practice, this means creating a framework that aligns treatment locations, timing, and methods so that work performed on one ownership supports broader community protection goals. It also includes evaluating the effectiveness and quality of fuels reduction work conducted on or near federal lands and incorporating that feedback into future planning, while continuing to engage the public and landowners on the benefits of prevention and mitigation.
The program also has an economic and capacity-building component for rural areas. It specifically highlights enhancing local and small business employment opportunities in rural communities, recognizing that fuels reduction and related mitigation work can support local contractors and workforce development. In addition, it aims to strengthen the capability of rural fire districts by supporting education and training and by improving knowledge of practical mitigation methods, which can translate into better preparedness and safer, more effective response when fires occur.
Administratively, the opportunity is a discretionary funding program using a cooperative agreement, meaning recipients should expect substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal agency compared with a more hands-off grant. It falls under the Natural Resources funding activity category and CFDA number 15.228. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted (open to any entity type), subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that may appear in the full announcement. The opportunity was created June 29, 2017, with an original closing date of August 28, 2017. The award ceiling is $95,000, and BLM anticipated making about two awards under this announcement.Apply for L17AS00184
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM OR/WA Community Assistance in Wildland Urban Interface" 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 Jun 29, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 28, 2017. (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 $95,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 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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