Wildland Urban Interface Community Assistance for Oregon/Washington for FY 2009

The summary for the Wildland Urban Interface Community Assistance for Oregon/Washington for FY 2009 grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Department of the Interior, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Wildland Urban Interface Community Assistance for Oregon/Washington for FY 2009: The wildland-urban interface community assistance program provides funding to state and local governments, non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and Tribes to reduce risk of fire in the wildland-urban interface in the vicinity of lands managed by the DOI. This program seeks to decrease wildland fire-related losses to rural economies through enhanced local mitigation; and to help reduce Federal, state, tribal and local expenditures on wildland fire suppression, particularly in the wildland-urban interface. All applications and pre-application material received by DOI bureaus within each state are reviewed and prioritized collaboratively. Priority for, and amount of funding awarded per grantee is based on relative need, proximity to, and partnership with DOI lands and bureaus, and other factors.