Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FS WPIA 2025
The 2025 Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance (WPIA) Program is a USDA Forest Service discretionary grant opportunity funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It makes up to $20 million available to help wood products businesses and community partners build or strengthen the processing capacity needed to use wood and woody biomass generated from ecosystem restoration work. The core idea is practical: when restoration projects remove hazardous vegetation to reduce extreme wildfire risk or address insect and disease impacts, the resulting byproducts can be expensive to handle and haul if there are not nearby facilities that can purchase and process them. By investing in local or regional wood-processing infrastructure, the program aims to lower the overall cost of restoration on federal and Tribal lands while also supporting jobs and economic activity in surrounding communities.
The Forest Service is prioritizing projects that establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or otherwise improve sawmills and other wood-processing facilities that will directly utilize byproducts from restoration activities. Those byproducts may include trees and woody biomass produced through timber sales, thinning operations, hazardous fuels reduction treatments, and similar vegetation management actions tied to ecological restoration objectives. A competitive application will clearly connect the proposed facility investment to an increased ability to accept and use this restoration material, and it will explain how the requested funding will remove bottlenecks that currently make restoration more costly (for example, limited processing capacity, long hauling distances, outdated equipment, or insufficient ability to handle small-diameter or low-value material).
Eligibility and project fit are strongly tied to location and sourcing. To qualify, a facility must be in close proximity to federal or Tribal lands, and it should procure a significant share of its raw material from those lands, generally described as around 50 percent or more. The emphasis is on ensuring the funded infrastructure actually serves restoration efforts on nearby federal land, Tribal forestland, and Tribal rangeland that have been identified as both high risk for wildfire, insect, or disease impacts and high priority for ecological restoration. Applications are expected to describe the nearby land base and restoration pipeline, and to demonstrate that the facility can reliably take in the restoration byproducts generated in that area.
A wide range of applicant types can apply. The program is open to for-profit entities as well as state and local governments, Indian Tribes, school districts, communities, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and special purpose districts such as public utility districts, fire districts, conservation districts, and ports. Awards are issued as grants. The opportunity is administered by the USDA Forest Service and is listed under CFDA 10.725.
Key funding details include a listed award ceiling of $1,000,000 per award, with a total program funding level of $20,000,000. The opportunity number is USDA FS WPIA 2025. The posting indicates an original closing date of 2024-12-18 and a creation date of 2024-10-24. Statutorily, the awards support the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117-58, enacted 11/15/2021), specifically Sec. 40804(b)(3), aligning the program with federal investments aimed at strengthening resilience, reducing wildfire risk, and improving the capacity of natural resource-based supply chains.
In plain terms, this grant is designed for organizations that can show they are positioned to turn restoration residues into usable products by upgrading or expanding processing capacity near at-risk federal or Tribal landscapes. The strongest proposals will make a clear, evidence-based case that the investment will increase utilization of restoration byproducts, reduce restoration treatment costs (especially those tied to removal and disposal), and deliver measurable community benefits through improved local wood-processing infrastructure.Apply for USDA FS WPIA 2025
- The Forest Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "2025 Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.725.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-10-24.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-12-18. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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