Economic Recovery Program
The Economic Recovery Program on the Mendocino National Forest provides assistance to rural communities located in or near the Forest that have become economically disadvantaged due to public land management decisions. The program supports these communities in their community planning and economic diversification efforts through technical and financial assistance. Grants are provided to eligible communities, counties, and tribes for development of strategic action plans and for funding projects contained in those plans. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis.
Who can Apply?
Communities, tribal governments, counties, municipalities, and not-for-profits with an economic development mission in areas dependent on forests and natural resources and:
- Community must be located within 100 miles of the official boundary of a National Forest
- Population is 10,000 people or less, or county population is less than 22,550.
- At least 15% of the total primary and secondary labor and proprietor income is derived from wood products and forest-related industries such as recreation and tourism.
- Community is economically disadvantaged as a result of Federal or private sector land management practices.
Eligible Activities:
A variety of community and economic development proposals can be funded. Proposals can range from requests to support community action plan development and other technical assistance, to project implementation requests from an existing action plan. Policy and Congressional direction focus funding to natural resource-based projects originating from local action plans which help communities diversify their economies.
2005 Information & Forms
Some of these documents are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you need to download the software, visit the Adobe web site.
- 2005 Announcement
- Economic Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- Proposal Checklist (pdf 15kb)
- Evaluation Criteria Rating System
- Obtaining a Data Universal Number System (DUNS) Number (pdf 23kb)
- Application - Word Doc | PDF
- SF-424 - Word Doc | PDF
- SF-424a - Word Doc | PDF
- Accessible FormNet Screen Fillable Forms SF-424 and SF-424a Forms are available at: http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/formslibrary.do?formType=SF
For further information, we encourage you to contact Vickie Stoll, Rural Community Assistance Coordinator at (530) 934-1148 or email Vickie at vstoll@fs.fed.us.