California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection › Chapter 4 - Forest Practices › Subchapter 7 - Administration › Article 6.95 - Working Forest Management Plan Administration › Section 1094.8 - Working Forest Harvest Notice Content

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The Working Forest Harvest Notice shall be a public
						record. The Department shall post the Working Forest Harvest Notice on the
						Department's Internet Website. All necessary deviations shall be approved by
						the Director, pursuant to
						14 CCR
						§§
												1094.23 and
						1094.24, prior to submission of a
						Working Forest Harvest Notice. The Working Forest Harvest Notice shall include
						all of the following information:
(a)
					 Name, address, and telephone number of the Working Forest
					 Landowner(s).
(b) Name, address,
					 and telephone number of the Designated Agent.
(c) Name, address, and telephone number of
					 the timber owner(s) (if different from Working Forest Landowner(s)).
(d) Name, address, telephone number and
					 license number of the licensed timber operator(s) conducting operations
					 pursuant to the Working Forest Harvest Notice, and the person responsible for
					 on the ground supervision of timber operations (if different from the licensed
					 timber operator(s).
(e) Name,
					 address, telephone number and registration number of the RPF preparing the
					 Working Forest Harvest Notice and the name, address, and registration number of
					 the RPF responsible pursuant to
					 14 CCR
					 §
												1094.11 if different.
(f) A legal description of the land,
					 including acreage, on which the work is proposed to be done including the
					 identification number of the WFMP.
(g) A statement that no archaeological sites
					 have been discovered in the harvest area since the approval of the WFMP or
					 approved deviations.
(h) A
					 statement that state or federally listed threatened, candidate, and endangered
					 species; rare plants; Sensitive Species pursuant to
					 14 CCR
					 §
												895.1; and species that meet the
					 criteria under
					 14 CCR
					 §
												15380(d), have not
					 been discovered, or are not publicly disclosed in writing, within or adjacent
					 to the logging area, since the approval of the WFMP, unless the approved WFMP
					 is amended pursuant to either
					 14 CCR
					 §
												1094.23 or
					 14 CCR §
											1094.24, consistent with
					 14 CCR
					 §
												1094.8(h)(2). After
					 the initial year the Plan is approved, prior to submitting the Working Forest
					 Harvest Notice, a review shall be conducted of the California Natural Diversity
					 Database or another public database approved by the Director after consultation
					 with the Department of Fish and Wildlife for any species listed as state or
					 federally listed threatened, candidate, and endangered species; rare plants;
					 Sensitive Species pursuant to
					 14 CCR
					 §
												895.1; and species that meet the
					 criteria under
					 14 CCR
					 §
												15380(d). When a
					 Working Forest Harvest Notice is filed after the initial year the Plan is
					 approved, it shall comply with the following:
(1) Documented occurrences obtained from a
					 review of public and readily available sources of species that are state or
					 federally listed threatened, candidate, and endangered species; rare plants;
					 Sensitive Species pursuant to
					 14 CCR
					 §
													895.1; and species that meet the
					 criteria under
					 14 CCR
					 §
													15380(d) within the
					 biological assessment area, and outside the area of timber operations,
					 identified in the Working Forest Harvest Notice, and not addressed in the
					 approved Plan shall be submitted to the Director as a minor deviation
					 concurrently with the filing of a Working Forest Harvest Notice.
(2) Documented occurrences of species that
					 are state or federally listed threatened, candidate, and endangered species;
					 rare plants; Sensitive Species pursuant to
					 14 CCR
					 §
													895.1; and species that meet the
					 criteria under
					 14 CCR
					 §
													15380(d) and
					 discovered within the area of timber operations, identified in the Working
					 Forest Harvest Notice, and not addressed in the approved Plan shall be
					 submitted to the Director as a deviation to the WFMP, prior to filing a Working
					 Forest Harvest Notice. The deviation shall contain take avoidance and other
					 mitigation measures developed in consultation with the Department and the
					 appropriate listing agency(s), if no such information is currently contained
					 within the approved Plan or incidental take authorization is provided by the
					 appropriate listing agency(s).