Michigan Bluff Community Protection Project (SNC 1322.1) (SCH 2021070335)
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2021070335
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Michigan Bluff Community Protection Project (SNC 1322.1) (SCH 2021070335)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/16/2024
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy will amend its grant agreement for funding to the National Forest Foundation to partner with the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest to implement fuel breaks on both sides of Forest Service Roads extending from Michigan Bluff to Sugar Pine Reservoir. The project strategically addresses safe access for communities in the Wildland Urban Intermix. Fuel breaks up to 600 ft wide (300 ft each side of road) will be created on up to 17.3 miles of road (855.7 acres). A combination of mastication, cutting and piling, pruning, pile burning, and broadcast prescribed fire will be used to create and maintain defensible areas where fire suppression actions have a high probability of success. These treatments will concentrate on surface, ladder, conifer fuels generally less than 10 inches diameter at breast height (dbh), and concentrations of standing dead trees.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
Legal Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
4.6mi NE of Iowa Hill and 5.7 mi SE of Secret Town
Counties
Placer
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Along forest service roads on the American River Ranger District of Tahoe National Forest, approximately six miles north of Foresthill and near Sugar Pine Reservoir and Big Reservoir in Placer County, CA.
Other Information
USFS roads around Sugar Pine and Big Reservoirs on Tahoe National Forest. 4.6mi NE of Iowa Hill and 5.7 mi SE of Secret Town.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Pub. Resources Code, section 4799.05, subd. (d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
Public Resources Code, section 4799.05, subd. (d)(1) statutorily exempts from CEQA projects for prescribed fire, reforestation, habitat restoration, thinning, or fuel reduction projects, or to related activities included in the project description, undertaken in whole or in part on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) if the primary role of a state or local agency is providing funding or staffing for those projects. The Sierra Nevada Conservancy is amending its grant agreement to the National Forest Foundation to partner with the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest to implement fuel reduction treatments on the Tahoe National Forest. The project was reviewed in its entirety under NEPA in the Sugar Pine Roadside Fuel Break Decision Memo signed on July 14, 2023.
County Clerk
Placer
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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