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Missoula LEPC updates grants, CWPP engagement and emergency exercises
Summary
County staff updated the LEPC on wildfire mitigation grants (community wildfire defense grant), the Community Wildfire Protection Plan kickoff and multiple upcoming trainings and exercises including a PIO course, tabletop and airport exercises; staff said project-specific scopes are needed to pursue mitigation funding.
Tim LaRoche told the LEPC the county’s community-wildfire-defense grant has spent about $1.1 million in federal funds with roughly $0.5 million in local match to date; the program continues for about 3½ more years and the total grant value cited by staff was about $4.8 million.
County staff announced kickoff of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) process with three rounds of public engagement (first round in the first week of…
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