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• Making Firewise information available at community events; <br />• Holding Firewise educational workshops for homeowners; <br />• Creating or distributing videos on Firewise principles related to the home ignition zone and <br />fire-resistant building materials; and <br />• Outfitting and staffing Firewise trailers or mobile units to educate homeowners about the <br />Firewise principles related to the home ignition zone and fire-resistant building materials. <br />Examples of mitigation assistance to homeowners include: <br />• Assisting communities with Firewise planning, including conducting a Firewise community <br />assessment; <br />• Hosting "clean-up days' to encourage homeowners to remove brush and other vegetation <br />from around their homes; <br />• Assisting communities with applications for Firewise Communities recognition; <br />• Providing grants or partial funding for removal of vegetation from around homes; <br />• Salary and transportation costs for youth crews removing vegetation from around homes; <br />• Supervision, transportation and related costs for parolees or prisoners removing vegetation <br />from around homes; and <br />• Providing chippers to treat hazardous vegetation within the home ignition zone. <br />May a county expend Title III funds for Firewise activities in communities that are not a <br />Firewise Communities/USA Recognized Site? <br />Section 302(a)(1) limits authorized activities to those activities "under the Firewise Communities <br />program." We interpret this language as limiting a county's use of Title III funds to the following <br />activities: <br />• Activities carried out in a community that is Firewise Community/USA Recognized Site. <br />• Activities carried out by a community to become recognized as a Firewise <br />Communities/USA Recognized Site. <br />• Activities necessary to renew recognition as a Firewise Communities/USA Recognized Site. <br />Activities aimed at recognition or renewal should occur within 12 months or less of recognition <br />or renewal to be authorized uses of Title III funds. <br />Counties are not eligible for recognition as a Firewise Community/USA Recognized Site under <br />the Firewise Community Program. However, counties can successfully support small <br />communities, subdivisions and neighborhoods in their jurisdictions in the recognition process. <br />To become recognized, communities must undertake the following five actions: <br />