Sonoma County Wildfire Protection Plan 2023 Update
Summary
SCH Number
2023050322
Public Agency
Sonoma County
Document Title
Sonoma County Wildfire Protection Plan 2023 Update
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
5/12/2023
Document Description
The CWPP is a collaboratively developed wildfire protection planning document that provides information on the County's residents, wildfire history, house outwards risk reduction strategies, wildfire preparedness, and local ecosystems. The CWPP further applies a Wildfire Risk Index throughout the County, and presents broad goals and objectives for wildfire risk reduction, and a community-driven Risk Reduction Priorities list that agencies and community groups can use to develop community education and fuel reduction projects and allows those projects to receive additional consideration for grant funding from various federal and state grant programs.
Contact Information
Name
Steve Mosiurchak
Agency Name
Sonoma County Fire Prevention Division
Job Title
Sonoma County Fire Marshal
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Counties
Sonoma
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
Countywide
Parcel #
Countywide
Other Information
This Notice of Exemption is Countywide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
CEQA Guidelines Section 15060(c) (no project), 15378 (no project), and 15262 (planning studies)
Reasons for Exemption
The project is exempt because adopting the CWPP will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and because it is not a project as defined in CEQA Guidelines section 15378, as it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly. Additionally, or alternatively, the CWPP is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15262, which exempts feasibility and planning studies for possible future actions that have not been approved, adopted, or funded from the requirement to prepare an environmental impact report or negative declaration provided environmental factors are considered. The CWPP provides recommendations for potential future actions and information to plan, assess, and prioritize wildfire prevention and preparation activities, including public education and fuel reduction projects, and enables such activities to be eligible for State and federal funding. The CWPP does not commit the County or any other entity to any particular course of action. Future activities are contingent upon motivated project proponents, available funding, and review and approval by the authorizing jurisdiction. Any activities that are recommended or included in the CWPP Project Entry Portal or Project List may be modified or denied in their entirety. If any wildfire prevention and preparation activities are later undertaken, the public agencies authorizing such activities will be required to comply with CEQA, as applicable.
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Statutory Exemption. Cal.Pub. Res.Code Sections 21065
Reasons for Exemption
The project is exempt because adopting the CWPP will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and because it is not a project as defined in CEQA Guidelines section 15378, as it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly. Additionally, or alternatively, the CWPP is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15262, which exempts feasibility and planning studies for possible future actions that have not been approved, adopted, or funded from the requirement to prepare an environmental impact report or negative declaration provided environmental factors are considered. The CWPP provides recommendations for potential future actions and information to plan, assess, and prioritize wildfire prevention and preparation activities, including public education and fuel reduction projects, and enables such activities to be eligible for State and federal funding. The CWPP does not commit the County or any other entity to any particular course of action. Future activities are contingent upon motivated project proponents, available funding, and review and approval by the authorizing jurisdiction. Any activities that are recommended or included in the CWPP Project Entry Portal or Project List may be modified or denied in their entirety. If any wildfire prevention and preparation activities are later undertaken, the public agencies authorizing such activities will be required to comply with CEQA, as applicable.
County Clerk
Sonoma
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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