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FY 2001 Programs in Utah
Updated 08/08/01
Overview:
The National Fire Plan includes five key program areas. Estimated allocations to Utah include:
| Firefighting Preparedness |
Firefighting Facilities |
Rehab & Restoration |
Hazardous Fuels Treatment |
Forest Health Projects |
| $17,931,000 |
$600,000 |
$392,000 |
$2,313,000 |
$210,000 |
| State Fire Assistance |
Volunteer Fire Assistance |
Economic Action Programs |
Community
and Private
Assistance |
TOTAL |
| $2,445,000 |
$142,000 |
$522,000 |
$1,631,000 |
* $26,186,000 |
| * Includes $500,000 in Research and Development in Utah in support of the National Fire Plan. |
Firefighting Resources:
Staffing the most efficient level (MEL) of resources to provide prompt initial attack on wildfires. Preparedness Organization:
- $17,931,000 allocated to build the most efficient level of fire preparedness.
- 106 permanent positions planned for hire in fiscal year 2001 to meet MEL.
- 81 permanent employees and 184 temporary employees hired (as of 07/10/01).
- Equipment available for firefighting this year: 31 engines and 6 helicopters
- Personnel available: 293 firefighters (includes all crews, initial attack, etc.)
- A new interagency Type I hotshot crew is fully trained and has been dispatched to Region 3. The crew is sponsored by Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands and is supported with FS funds through the consolidated grant under State & Private Forestry.
- Fire Facilities:
- Improvement to the airtanker base on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, construction of and improvements to interagency fire facilities, and construction of three crew bunkhouses.
- Four contracts totaling $64,187 awarded for helibase leases in Morgan, San Juan, Utah, and Iron counties.
Rehabilitation and Restoration:
Assuring long-term efforts to improve lands unlikely to recover naturally from fire damage.
- 24,000 acres of National Forest System lands burned in the 2000 fire season.
- 22 projects selected for implementation in FY 2001 in Utah.
- $392,000 of the $142,000,000 national total in FY 2001 was allocated for projects in Utah.
- Projects include water systems restoration, grazing management, and restoration of roads, watershed, wildlife habitat, and trails.
Hazardous Fuels Reduction:
Targeting fuel management and reduction on high-priority areas, especially wildland/urban interface areas.
- More than 28,000 acres of planned fuels treatments and 3,500 acres of accomplished fuel treatments (through 07/27/01).
Community Assistance:
Increasing community capacity to reduce wildfire risk and expand local economic opportunities on private, state, and tribal lands through federal and non-federal cost-shares. The community assistance programs in the National Fire Plan include: |
