Butte County Resource Conservation District Small Forest Landowner Assistance Program SNC 962-RFFCP (SCH2023050543)
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2023050543
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Butte County Resource Conservation District Small Forest Landowner Assistance Program SNC 962-RFFCP (SCH2023050543)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
8/31/2023
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for project implementation. The purpose of the project is to maintain, repair, and restore property that was damaged or destroyed as a result of the 2020 North Complex Fire emergency. The purpose of the project is to restore to pre-disaster conditions so the small forest landowners can safely rebuild, maintain ingress-egress routes, utilize their land and reduce the likelihood of a future fire disaster. To achieve this, standing dead trees and brush would be removed, using manual and mechanical means, logs would be decked using e.g. feller-bunchers, and excess woody biomass would be scattered, burned on site, and/or transported to a biomass facility or mill, as dictated by fuels levels on each unit. Pile-burns and underburns would be conducted on some properties. Where natural regeneration is not sufficient, native confiders and hardwoods would be re-planted; on sites where re-planting occurs, herbicide would be sprayed on tanoak only.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
Legal Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Berry Creek (95916)
Counties
Butte
Regions
Northern California
Zip
95916
Other Location Info
The project's 15 units comprise a total of ~ 19 acres across the Berry Creek and Brush Creek USGS quadrangles, including parts of T21N, R06E sections 5 & 31; T21N R05E sns 14, 28, 29, 34, & 35; and T20N R05E sns 1, 3, & 17.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Pub. Resources, Code, section 21080, subd. (b)(3) ; CEQA Guidelines, section 15269, subd.
Reasons for Exemption
The project is statutorily exempt under Sections 21080, subd. (b)(3) of the Public Resources Code and CEQA Guidelines, section 15269, subd. (a) as the project is one to maintain, repair, and restore property that was damages or destroyed as a result of the 2020 North Fire Complex Emergency. On August 18, 2020, Governor Newsom issued an emergency declaration pursuant to the California Emergency Services Act commencing with Section 8550 of the Government Code for fires affecting the State of California.
County Clerk
Butte
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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