Trinity Community Protection & Landscape Resilience Phase 2 Grant: Restoration (USDA Forest Service)
Summary
SCH Number
2022060509
Public Agency
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
(CAL FIRE)
Document Title
Trinity Community Protection & Landscape Resilience Phase 2 Grant: Restoration (USDA Forest Service)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
6/23/2022
Document Description
CAL FIRE would provide funding to The Watershed Research & Training Center in areas that burned to conduct reforestation/tree planting, site prep for planting and biomass removal and utilization. Pre-planting site prep work includes hand thinning, mastication, lop and scatter, hand piling, pile burning, and biomass removal of competing vegetation (mostly brush and dead standing trees). In one area, fuels reduction will occur to establish a shaded fuelbreak. These treatments will reduce wildfire risks to local resources and community members, promote native plant and wildlife species, and improve forest resiliency.
Contact Information
Name
Jamie Sammut
Agency Name
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Job Title
Attorney
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Counties
Trinity
Regions
Northern California
Total Acres
7455
Other Location Info
All or portions of sections 4-10, 15-22, and 28-33 in T. 34 N., R. 8W.; sections 4-8, 17 and 18 in T. 33 N., R. 8 W.; section 1 in T. 33 N., R. 9 W.; and sections 1-4, 2, 9-16, 21-26, 35 and 36 in T. 34 N., R. 9 W. & sections 15, 16, 18-21, and 29 in T. 27 N, R. 11 W; Mount Diablo Meridian.
T28N, R10W, sections 19 and 30; T28N, R11W, sections 2-5, 9-16, and 21-26; T29N, R11W, sections 19 and 29-33; T29N, R12W, sections 13-15, 22-26, and 36 Mount Diablo Meridian; T1S, R7E, sections 1, 12, 13, 24- 26, and 36; T1S, R8E, sections 6, 7, 16-21, and 28-32; T2S, R7E, section 1; T2S, R8E, sections 6 and 7; Humboldt Meridian.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Public Resources Code Section 4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
CEQA does not apply to fuel reduction projects undertaken on federal lands to reduce the risk of high severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the NEPA, if the primary role of a state or local agency is providing funding or staffing for those projects. The proposed project was reviewed in its entirety under three separate NEPA documents: the Pettijohn Late-successional Reserve Habitat Improvement and Fuels Reduction Project Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision signed in March 2013; the August Fire Restoration Project Phase 1 Environmental Assessment and Decision Notice signed in September 2021; and the Trough Fire Recovery Project Decision Memo signed in August 2009.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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