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 6.75 - Sustained Yield Plan › Section 1091.1 - Sustained Yield Plan

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 General. This Article establishes requirements applicable to Sustained Yield,
					 watershed impacts, and fish and wildlife.
(b) Authority and Intent. This Article
					 carries out the Legislature's direction that the Board adopt regulations to
					 assure the continuous growing and harvesting of commercial forest tree Species
					 and to protect the soil, air, fish and wildlife, and water resources in
					 accordance with the policies of the Forest Protection Act (FPA). Those policies
					 include creating and maintaining a system of Timberland regulations and use
					 which ensures that Timberland productivity is maintained, enhanced and restored
					 where Feasible and the goal of maximum sustained production of high-quality
					 timber products (MSP) is achieved While Giving Consideration to environmental
					 and economic values. The Sustained Yield Plan (SYP) may be submitted at the
					 option of the landowner and is intended to supplement the THP process by
					 providing a means for addressing long-term issues of sustained timber
					 production, and cumulative Effects analysis which includes issues of fish and
					 wildlife and watershed impacts on a large landscape basis.
In the interpretation and implementation of this Article,
						it is recognized that the accuracy of, and therefore the need for, detailed
						future projections becomes less as the time horizon lengthens. It is not the
						intent of this Article that speculation shall be promoted such that analyses
						shall be undertaken which would produce only marginally reliable results or
						that unneeded data would be gathered. Moreover, it is recognized that in
						certain cases, landowners, and particularly owners of smaller areas, may not
						have nor can be reasonably expected to obtain or Project information which
						otherwise might be helpful. It is the intent of this Article that the
						requirements for informational or analytical support for a SYP shall be guided
						by the principles of practicality and reasonableness; no information or
						analysis shall be required which in the light of all applicable factors is not
						Feasible. However, it is the intent of this Article that all potential adverse
						environmental impacts resulting from proposed harvesting be described,
						discussed and analyzed before such operations are allowed. Should such analysis
						not be included in the SYP, it must be contained in those THPs which rely on
						the SYP, including any impact discovered after the SYP is
						approved.
1. New
						article 6.75 (sections
						1091.1-1091.14) and section filed
						1-7-94; operative 3-1-94 (Register 94, No. 1).
2. Editorial
						correction (Register 96, No. 45).
3. Change without regulatory
						effect amending section filed 10-31-2017 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2017, No. 44).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  4551
						  and
						  4561,
						  Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections
						  4551.5,
						  4561,
						  21003
						  and
						  21068.5,
						  Public Resources Code.