The funding will help reduce risk from wildfires, support improved wildland firefighter training, expand efforts to rehabilitate burned areas in collaboration with partners, and advance wildfire science.
The money will help build 600+ miles of new transmission lines and upgrade about 400 miles of existing lines so that they can carry more current.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stopped in Northern Nevada on Tuesday to discuss and tout the Biden Administration's national industrial strategy.
Three wildfires have hit our area recently.
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