2026 Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Program

The USDA Forest Service is announcing funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to provide financial assistance to facilities that procure and process byproducts generated from ecosystem restoration/forest management projects in areas at risk of unnaturally severe wildfire or insect or disease infestation. The funding priority is to entities seeking to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood-processing or energy facility that utilizes byproducts from these projects. The project facility must be in close proximity to and procure a substantial quantity of raw materials from federal or Tribal lands. Successful applicants will describe how facility investment outcomes will reduce the cost of ecological restoration/land management projects on Federal or Tribal lands through market opportunities for restoration byproducts. • The opportunity is open to for-profit entities, state and local governments, Indian Tribes, school districts, communities, not-for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and special purpose districts. • The project facility must utilize meaningful volumes of byproducts from ecosystem restoration activities on federal lands or Tribal lands. • The financial assistance will be used to increase wood utilization capacity or manufacturing efficiencies at the project facility. • The project will assist in reducing the cost of conducting ecological restoration projects that generate byproducts such as logs and woody biomass.