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• Biomass Removal: This Includes clearing straw, removing dead or dry vegetation, thinning, and removing blown -down timber from wind throw, ice, or a combination of these. ■ Felling of Hazardous Trees: Including removal of standing burned trees. ■ Mechanical Treatments: including disking, mulching, mowing, chopping, and removal of such material; material left onsite must meet appropriate depth practices in accordance with applicable codes and best practices. Hazardous fuel reduction projects are eligible for FEMA funds if they are within two miles of homes and other structures that meet or exceed applicable fire -related codes and standards and demonstrate a risk reduction for the target community or buildings (FEMA, 2021). USDA Forest Service Community Wildfire Defense Grant The Community Wildfire Defense Program assists at -risk communities, including tribal communities, with planning for and lowering wildfire risks on tribal, state, and privately managed land. Grant funding is available for communities to implement fuel reduction and defensible space programs; however, only fuel reduction and defensible space projects described in a Community Wildfire Protection Plan are eligible for the grant (USDA Forest Service 2024). Diablo Firesafe Council Diablo Firesafe Council's (DFSC) Partners in Wildfire Prevention fuel reduction grant. Defensible space fuel - reduction projects are eligible for cost -share assistance of up to $5,000 per project. Funds are available to organizations or groups of individuals to hire contractors to reduce fuel loads and create defensible space. DFSC may assist Alameda County or Contra Costa County property owners with vegetation management projects that will lead to compliance with their local fire department's defensible space requirements in areas designated as Priority Hazard Zones. Eligible projects include: ■ Chipping or green waste removal of homeowner -cut material ■ Mowing or "weed whacking" (as a part of a larger project) ■ Tree thinning (cutting of small trees) or "limbing-up" or removal of small dead trees ■ Brush cutting (including juniper removal or use of mechanical equipment) ■ Grazing DFSC was not currently accepting new grant applications when this appendix was written, but this is a temporary closure, and the grant applications may open in the future (DFSC 2024). It is worth notingthatthis grant is available to individual property owners and HOAs. The above funding sources are intended to help communities reduce the risk of wildfire by managing vegetation near buildings and critical infrastructure, includingtree maintenance. Tree planting istypically not an eligible activity in these funding programs. APPENDIX A -WILDFIRE 28 of 219