California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game › Subdivision 3 - General Regulations › Chapter 6 - Regulations for Implementation of the California Endangered Species Act and Native Plant Protection Act › Article 2 - Take Incidental to Routine and Ongoing Agricultural Activities › Section 786.4 - Amendments to the Voluntary Local Program

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The voluntary local program may initiate
					 an amendment to a local program by providing written notification to the
					 Department and by providing the Department with the necessary information for
					 review. The Department review and approval of such amendments shall be governed
					 by the following provisions. The Director shall approve any minor or major
					 program amendment if the amended program would continue to meet the standards
					 in section
					 786.3(g) of this
					 article.
(1) Minor Amendments. Amendments that
					 the Department determines will not significantly modify the scope or nature of
					 the local program; will not likely result in a significant adverse impact on
					 candidate, threatened, or endangered species beyond that anticipated from the
					 originally approved plan; will not likely diminish the habitat-enhancing
					 benefits of the local program; and will otherwise meet the standards in section
					 786.3(g) of this
					 article shall be considered minor amendments to the local program. The Director
					 shall approve minor amendments and incorporate them into the local program, or
					 shall deny the minor amendments, within 30 days of submission of a minor
					 amendment to the Department. Minor amendments may be used to adapt a local
					 program's management practices based on experience in implementing the local
					 program to make those practices more effective in meeting the standards in
					 section 786.3(g) of this
					 article, provided the Department determines the changes meet the criteria in
					 this subsection (a)(1) for minor amendments. For a minor amendment of a local
					 program for which the Department adopted an environmental analysis, the
					 Department may prepare an addendum to the environmental analysis or other
					 appropriate document.
(2) Major
					 Amendments. Amendments that the Department determines would significantly
					 modify the scope or nature of the local program, likely result in a significant
					 adverse impact on candidate, threatened, or endangered species beyond that
					 anticipated from the originally approved plan, diminish the habitat-enhancing
					 benefits of the local program, or require additional environmental review
					 pursuant to section
					 21166
					 of the Public Resources Code or California Code of Regulations, Title 14,
					 section 15162, shall be considered major
					 amendments to the local program. Requests for major amendments shall be
					 reviewed according to the process established in this article for new local
					 programs, except that the information and analysis provided in support of an
					 application for a major amendment may rely on supplemental information to the
					 analysis used in the initial submittal for the local
					 program.