Assistance program
Inflation Reduction Act - National Forest System
$491.5 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Forest Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.729
- What it does
- The focus of this program is for project work to be performed on National Forest System lands in the following areas: 1) fuels reduction projects on National Forest System lands that are within a wildland-urban interface, 2) vegetation management projects on National Forest System lands that are carried out in accordance with the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, 3) provide environmental reviews under obligated by the Chief of the Forest Service under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and 4) protection and inventory of old-growth and matures forests on National Forest System lands.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Not Applicable
- Authorized by
- 43 U.S.C. § 1474a
- 16 U.S.C. § 565a1-a3
- 16 U.S.C. § 1701
- 16 U.S.C. § 2113a
- 25 U.S.C. § 3115b
- 42 U.S.C. § 15a
- 16 U.S.C. § 5655a-1
- 7 U.S.C. § 3318c
- Program site
- https://www.usda.gov/ira#ForestService ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$8.8M
2%
Other
$482.7M
98%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments