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Grant Details:
Amount: $10,000
Application Due Date: 05/25/2012
Description: Overview: The Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) program is funded through the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Unfortunately, there will be no Rural Fire Assistance (RFA) funding this year. The objective of the VFA program is to improve the capacity and capability of rural and volunteer fire protection districts that protect rural communities and play a substantial cooperative role in the suppression of wildland fires within or in the vicinity of federally managed lands. Grants cannot be awarded to a district that serves a city with a population over 10,000. The population of the entire district is not important, just as long as the district does not have an incorporated city of over 10,000 within the district boundaries. Elgibility: • To qualify you must be an established fire district (as determined by the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office), or in the process of being established (also includes rangeland associations)
• You must have a federal tax identification number (TIN) by the time the grant reimbursement is requested
• Your district boundaries cannot contain an incorporated city with a population over 10,000. The population of the entire district is not important, just as long as the there is no incorporated cityover 10,000
• Fire protection districts should protect rural communities and play a substantial cooperative role inthe suppression of wildland fires within or in the vicinity of federally managed lands.
• If you are a “subscription” district but will respond to an incident regardless of “payment status”for the location, then you would be eligible.
• The fire department must be a party to an agreement with the Oregon Department of Forestry (as in mutual aid agreement) and/or a cooperative fire agreement with a US Forest Service, Department of Interior Bureau (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, NationalParks Service or US Fish and Wildlife Services). Please be prepared to provide a copy of the agreement if requested.
• The RFD must be compliant with the NIMS certification requirements in order to be eligible to receive these grant dollars. The Department of Homeland Security is requiring this of all grant recipients.
• Projects from agencies that cannot show proof of expenditure will not be eligible.
• Projects that do not indicate improvement of the protection capabilities will not be eligible.
Allowable Costs include:
- Organizational improvements
- Structural or Wildland Firefighting equipment or safety improvements
- Training
- PPE
- Communications equipment
Application Grant Manual
Organization Information:
Organization: Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Association
Website: http://www.ofva.org
Contact Information:
Contact Name: Mary Smith
Contact Email: msmith@odf.state.or.us
Contact Phone: 503-945-7341
More Information:
http://egov.oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/grantopps.shtml
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