California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chapter 4 - Forest Practices
Subchapter 4 - Coast Forest District Rules
Article 7 - Hazard Reduction
Section 917.4 - Treatment of Logging Slash in the Southern Subdistrict
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
To reduce fire hazards within the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District, treatment of Slash shall be done in addition to requirements of 14 CCR § 917.2 as follows:
(a) To provide more efficient firebreaks the areas within fifty (50) feet of the edge of all Public Roads shall be kept free of Slash. Slash between fifty (50) feet and one hundred (100) feet of the edge of said roads and Slash between one hundred to two hundred (100-200) feet of all Approved and Legally Permitted Habitable Structures shall be treated by piling and burning, chipping, burying, removal, or Lopping to within twelve (12) inches above the ground not later than April 1 of the year following its creation. Distances shall be measured along the surface of the ground. Timber Operations shall not cause a violation of PRC § 4291.
(b) All Slash and Woody Debris created by Timber Operations greater than one (1) inch but less than eight (8) inches in diameter within one hundred (100) feet of Approved and Legally Permitted Habitable Structures shall be removed or piled and burned.
(c) Concentrations of Slash around logging Landings or located within the Logging Area excluding those areas substantially covered with logs on the ground, shall be crushed, chipped, spread, piled and burned, or otherwise treated no later than April 1st of the following year following their creation.
(d) Slash within the Logging Area, excluding those areas substantially covered with logs on the ground, shall be Lopped over the entire Logging Area by April 1st of the year following the creation of the Slash. Slash along roads in the Logging Area shall be Lopped concurrently with its creation.
1.
Renumbering and amendment of former Section 917.4 to Section
917.3 and renumbering and
amendment of former Sections
917.3,
917.5 and
917.7 to Section 917.4 filed
6-19-84; effective upon filing pursuant to Government Code Section
11346.2(d)
(Register 84, No. 25).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending
section filed 10-31-2017 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2017, No. 44).
3. Amendment filed 12-1-2021;
operative 1-1-2022 pursuant to Public Resources Code section
4554.5(a)
(Register 2021, No. 49). Filing deadline specified in Government Code section
11349.3(a)
extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20 and an additional
60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order
N-71-20.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 4551 and 4562, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 4513, 4551.5 and 4562, Public Resources Code.
