Roosevelt Fire Resources

Resources available for those impacted by Roosevelt Fire

State agencies are working together to explore all available recovery resources and to make those accessible for Sublette County, Hoback Ranches Service and Improvement District and those impacted by the fire. We encourage those who have suffered damages to look at the available resources listed below.

For additional assistance or direction to the right agency, contact Kelly Ruiz. Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, at 307-777-4909 or at kelly.ruiz@wyo.gov

The University of Wyoming has beneficial information for those impacted. See more at http://www.uwyo.edu/barnbackyard/resources/wildfire.html


Emergency Watershed Protection Program - CLOSED

Provides disaster recovery for eligible damages to the watershed due to flooding, fires.

For more information on the EWPP Fire Grant

Mitigation Grants

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program - CLOSED

HMGP-Post Fire is a mitigation grant intended to reduce community vulnerability to disasters and their effects, promote individual and community safety and resilience, and promote community vitality following a major fire. Priority is given to projects which support wildfire recovery, and may be used for other, non-fire-related mitigation projects if funding is not fully utilized for wildfire recovery. HMGP-Post Fire is available to states following a fire which received a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) to assist with fire suppression costs. Federal funding available: $425,008

For more information on the HMGP-Post Fire Grant

Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Grant Program

The PDM Grant is a mitigation grant intended to reduce community vulnerability to disasters and their effects, promote individual and community safety and resilience, and promote community vitality. Funding is allocated annually by congress and is available nationwide.

For more information on the PDM Grant

Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Grant Program

The FMA Grant is a mitigation grant intended to reduce or eliminate claims under the National Flood Insurance Program, with a focus on mitigating repetitive loss properties and severe repetitive loss properties. The FMA Grant Program was created as part of the National Flood Insurance Reform Act. Funding is provided annually through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

For more information on the FMA Grant

Assistance and Resources for Homeowners/Individuals/Agricultural Producers

Farm Service Agency, Emergency Assistance for Livestock (ELAP)

The 2014 Farm Bill authorized up to $20 million of Commodity Credit Corporation funds in a fiscal year for the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP). ELAP provides emergency assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish.

For more information on the ELAP Grant

Wyoming State Forestry Landowner Assistance

Wyoming State Forestry Division provides on-site consultation for landowners following wildfires, providing information on revegetation, erosion control, and general forest management.

For more information on forestry assistance

Farm Services Agency (FSA)

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

The Emergency Conservation Program (ECP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA), provides emergency funding and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters and to implement emergency water conservation measures in periods of severe drought.

For more information about Emergency Conservation Program

Wyoming Department of Insurance

The Wyoming Department of Insurance provides assistance to consumers with questions or complaints relating to insurance coverage.

For more information about the services offered by the Department of Insurance

Livestock Indemnity Program

The 2014 Farm Bill authorized the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to provide benefits to eligible livestock owners or contract growers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by eligible loss conditions, including eligible adverse weather, eligible disease and eligible attacks (attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law, including wolves and avian predators).

For more information about the Livestock Indemnity Program

Clean Water Act Section 319 Grants/Nonpoint Source Program (DEQ/WQD)

Section 319 grant funds are federal funds provided to the state under the Clean Water Act to reduce nonpoint sources of pollution to surface water and ground water. Nonpoint source pollution occurs when surface water runoff from rainfall or snowmelt travels over and/or percolates through the ground and picks up contaminants. These contaminants can be deposited into streams, lakes, rivers, and ground water. Post-wildfire erosion resulting in sediment loading to nearby streams/rivers would be an example of nonpoint source pollution.

For more information about the Nonpoint Source Program

Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division - Wastewater Technical Assistance

WQD can offer technical assistance to Sublette County Public Health and local landowners regarding proper abandonment or repair/replacement procedures and permit requirements to abandon, repair, or replace septic systems.

For more information about Wastewater Technical Assistance

Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division - Stream Restoration

The Water Quality Division (WQD) ensures the proper disposal of wastewaters, ensure the proper design of water and wastewater treatment facilities, monitor and evaluate the quality of surface and groundwater, and to require and to facilitate the clean-up of water quality impaired surface and groundwater.

For more information about Stream Restoration

Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division - Mine Location Technical Assistance

The Land Quality Division (LQD) regulates surface and underground mining operations, and ensures successful reclamation following mining to the approved post mining land use. LQD is responsible for ensuring that mining is conducted in a manner that complies with state environmental standards as established in the Environmental Quality Act.

For more information about Mine Location Technical Assistance

Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division - Well Water Technical Assistance

The Water Quality Division (WQD) ensures the proper disposal of wastewaters, ensure the proper design of water and wastewater treatment facilities, monitor and evaluate the quality of surface and groundwater, and to require and to facilitate the clean-up of water quality impaired surface and groundwater.

For more information about Well Water Technical Assistance

Businesses

WBC Economic Disaster Loans

The Challenge Loan statute has a provision that allows a business or group of businesses to apply to the WBC for Economic Disaster declaration. If the request is approved individual businesses may then apply for direct loans in the amount of their actual dollar loss.

For more information about Economic Disaster Loans

Governmental Agencies/Municipalities

Countywide Consensus Grants (CWC)

The CWC program awards grants to the following:

Mineral Royalty Grants (MRG)

The MRG program awards grants to the following:

Wyoming Water Development Commission/Groundwater Exploration Grants

The program provides funding to conduct exploration and feasibility studies to develop groundwater supplies.

For more information about Groundwater Exploration Grants

Wyoming Water Development Commission/Water Development Program

The program provides funding for the development of new water supply systems and rehabilitation of existing systems. W.S. 41-2-114 defines the three levels of project development to be: