Boca/Hobart Forest Health and Meadow Habitat Restoration (SNC 1678)
Summary
SCH Number
2024030325
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Boca/Hobart Forest Health and Meadow Habitat Restoration (SNC 1678)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/11/2024
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) will provide funding to the Truckee River Watershed Council (TRWC) for project #1678 Boca/Hobart Forest Health and Meadow Habitat Restoration project. The project is a 2,800-acre forest health planning project on Tahoe National Forest (TNF) lands in Nevada County. The project is west of Boca Reservoir and north of Prosser Reservoir in the Middle Truckee River watershed, approximately five miles northeast of the town of Truckee. The TRWC, in partnership with TNF, would conduct planning activities that could result in potential future forest-health treatments to enhance ecological function and reduce the risk of fire, drought mortality, and other unplanned disturbances. The project would conduct baseline wildlife, vegetation, aquatic, and cultural surveys to determine the presence of any sensitive species or resources and would also include a comprehensive stand inventory, detailed prescription treatments, and proposed actions. In addition, the project would complete design plans and environmental compliance documents for a meadow habitat restoration component. The proposed project has been identified as a priority area by the Middle Truckee River Watershed Forest Health Partnership and has received other funding that will support some of the planning activities. The SNC’s funding would be allocated to completion of baseline surveys, report development and prescription treatment plans, a draft National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) decision, and draft design documents. There will be no ground or resource disturbance as part of this project.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
Legal Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Approximately five miles northeast of Truckee
Counties
Nevada
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Approximately 2,800-acre planning project located in Tahoe National Forest in Nevada County, between Boca and Prosser reservoirs, about 5 miles northeast of the town of Truckee. Project center approximately at -120.132 and 39.404 degrees.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Pub. Resources Code, Section 21150; CEQA Guidelines, Section 15262, Feasibility and Planning Studies
Reasons for Exemption
The planning activities under this project are resource surveys, data analysis, and planning and design towards the development of a Draft NEPA decision considering potential future forest and watershed-health projects, which have not yet been approved, adopted, or funded. The planning and due diligence activities to be carried out as part of the project involve no ground or resource disturbance. The project is Statutorily Exempt under CEQA Guidelines, Section 15262 Feasibility and Planning Studies as the project only involves planning studies for possible future actions, which the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Governing Board has not approved, adopted, or funded; there is no legally binding effect on later activities. The project is also Categorically Exempt under CEQA Guidelines, Section 15306 Information Collection because it consists of basic data collection and resource evaluation activities, which do not result in a disturbance to environmental resources. The proposed activities are for information gathering purposes and are part of a study leading to an action, which a public agency has not yet approved, adopted, or funded.
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
CEQA Guidelines, Section 15306, Information Collection
Reasons for Exemption
The planning activities under this project are resource surveys, data analysis, and planning and design towards the development of a Draft NEPA decision considering potential future forest and watershed-health projects, which have not yet been approved, adopted, or funded. The planning and due diligence activities to be carried out as part of the project involve no ground or resource disturbance. The project is Statutorily Exempt under CEQA Guidelines, Section 15262 Feasibility and Planning Studies as the project only involves planning studies for possible future actions, which the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Governing Board has not approved, adopted, or funded; there is no legally binding effect on later activities. The project is also Categorically Exempt under CEQA Guidelines, Section 15306 Information Collection because it consists of basic data collection and resource evaluation activities, which do not result in a disturbance to environmental resources. The proposed activities are for information gathering purposes and are part of a study leading to an action, which a public agency has not yet approved, adopted, or funded.
County Clerk
Nevada
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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