Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) The following practices and combinations
thereof as set forth in PRC 4794 are eligible for assistance through cost
sharing agreements if they are completed in accordance with these procedures
and the conditions of a cost sharing agreement:
(1) Preparation of management plans and
addendums to management plans satisfying 14 CAC 1529.1.
(2) Site preparation as necessary to
establish desirable tree species. Mechanical, chemical, and manual methods will
be permitted to control and/or remove competing brush and hardwood species.
Other methods include but are not limited to prescribed burning of brush and
slash, and soil preparation such as plowing, discing, and
fertilizing.
(3) Provision and
planting of seed and seedlings of commercial tree species. Costs of said seed
and seedlings from public and private nurseries are eligible for cost sharing.
Planting includes manual and mechanical planting of seed and seedlings and
subsequent protection of those seed and seedlings.
(4) Stand improvement within young growth
stands of commercial tree species including clean and release or precommercial
thinning of overstocked stands to provide more growing space for healthier
stems.
(5) Forest land conservation
measures including but not limited to erosion control, revegetation, road
closure and stabilization of abandoned roadbeds, and improvement of drainage
facilities for the purpose of reducing soil erosion and
sedimentation.
(6) Fish and
wildlife habitat improvement work including but not limited to stream
clearance, reestablishment of desirable vegetation along stream channels and
elsewhere, measures to encourage habitat diversity, restoration of anadromous
fisheries, and fencing to protect wet areas and other key wildlife habitat
areas from livestock.
(7) Followup
work includes those practices necessary to promote the survival of seed or
seedlings planted or protection or enhancement of other practices undertaken as
part of a prior project pursuant to the Act and these
procedures.
(b) The
following categories of work are not eligible for cost sharing even if one or
more may be required to make a project serve its purpose:
(1) Fencing practices designed to protect the
forest stand from livestock.
(2)
Practices designed to protect the forest stand from fire.
(3) Costs of using land and water including
but not limited to irrigation systems, spring development and water resource
improvement.
(4) Road
construction.
(5) Practices
intended solely to produce Christmas trees or greenery.
(6) Projects designed solely for the
production of fuelwood.
1. Amendment
filed 4-15-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No.
16).
2. Editorial correction of effective date of 4-15-83 order
filed 4-22-83 (Register 83, No. 17).
3. Amendment filed 8-31-84;
effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No.
35).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
4794
and
4799.02,
Public Resources Code. Reference: Section
4794,
Public Resources Code.
