Title

Summit County Weber River Watershed Resilience Partnership Project - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Fire Mitigation Project

Document Number

N2026192

Document Type

EA/FONSI

Project Description

The EPA Region 8, in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 117-328), intends to award Community Grant funding to the Summit County for the Weber River Watershed Resilience Partnership Project (Proposed Action). The funding was allocated into a non-competitive EPA grant for Summit County, Utah. The Proposed Action involves work entirely within the Upper Weber Watershed Restoration project area and mirrors the work in the Upper Weber Watershed Restoration EA. Summit County, Utah, in collaboration with Utah State University (USU) and UWCNF, will conduct landscape-scale wildfire risk assessments and implement targeted fire mitigation strategies that are intended to protect critical watersheds and communities in the Weber River Watershed. The Summit County Weber River Watershed Resilience Partnership Project aims to provide unified and coordinated, proactive landscape-scale watershed defense across multiple jurisdictional boundaries focused on treating approximately 300 acres of USFS lands within the Upper Weber Watershed Restoration EA project area.The Proposed Action involves vegetation and fuel treatments (e.g., hand thinning, cut and pile, prescribed fire (broadcast and pile burning), and mastication) to reduce loads and continuity of woody fuel, restore healthy ecosystem conditions with a mix of tree ages and species, and improve watershed fire resilience. Fuel reduction treatments will be based on USU’s sediment discharge and fire-risk modeling, identifying areas of highest vulnerability.

EPA Region/Headquarters Office

8

State or Territory

UT

Point of Contact

Matt Mullins

mullins.matthew@epa.gov

Date of Issuance

2026-07-09 00:00:00.0

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