New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter II - LANDS AND FORESTS › Part 199 - Taxation Of Forest Land › Section 199.6 - General management plan provisions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Each approved management plan shall
				contain the following:
(1) application number
				provided by the department;
(2)
				identification of the owner and the tract;
(3) a narrative listing of the merchantable
				forest crops to be continually produced upon the eligible tract as a result of
				the implementation of the approved management plan;
(4) a narrative listing of endangered and
				threatened species known to exist on the eligible tract;
(5) a type map drawn neatly in ink which
				shall include the following:
(i) boundaries
				of eligible forest land drawn at a scale acceptable to the department;
				ineligible land or lands not to be included under this Part must be clearly
				identified on the map and acreage(s) individually indicated;
(ii) stands or forest management areas within
				eligible tract delineated as to number and acreage;
(iii) physical features such as buildings,
				roads, streams and power lines identified;
(iv) north arrow;
(v) name, address and title of person who
				prepared the map and the date prepared;
(vi) name and address of owner of the tract;
				and
(vii) application number
				provided by the department;
(6) a listing of the stands, or forest
				management areas, that comprise all of the forest land to be committed pursuant
				to the management plan. The listing shall include the following information for
				each stand or forest management area:
(i)
				stand or forest management area number;
(ii) stand type or forest management area
				types;
(iii) diameter class or
				classes;
(iv) site class;
(v) acreage estimated to the nearest whole
				acre;
(vi) species composition
				expressed as a percentage;
(vii)
				basal area;
(viii) identification
				of every area more than an acre in size that is not eligible;
If the listing is by forest management area, the management
				  plan shall also identify stand numbers and estimated stand acreages for each
				  stand within each forest management area;
(7) a work schedule for each of the next 15
				years, which shall contain all commercial and noncommercial cuttings, road
				construction and other treatments needed for continued certification. The
				approved management plan shall prescribe noncommercial treatments necessary to
				attain the production of the selected merchantable forest crops specified in
				paragraph (3) of this subdivision. Such noncommercial treatments shall be
				accomplished at not less than the greater of the following rates:
(i) 10 acres per year; or
(ii) five percent of the total acreage in the
				certified tract needing treatment;
stands which demonstrate a productive capacity of less than
				  50 cubic feet per acre per year may be exempted from the noncommercial
				  treatment requirement where the selected merchantable forest crops specified in
				  paragraph (3) of this subdivision do not economically justify such
				  treatment;
(8) a
				description of compatible or supportive uses that are desired by the
				owner;
(9) a description of any
				cuttings or removals of merchantable forest crops during the past three years,
				including the date, location and cutting prescription of such cuttings or
				removals; lands from which a merchantable forest crop has been cut or removed
				within three years prior to the time of application will be ineligible for
				certification unless such cutting or removal was accomplished under a forest
				management program designed to provide for the continuing production of
				merchantable forest crops; and
(10)
				the signature and typed or printed name of the forester who prepared or
				supervised the preparation of the management plan and the date prepared,
				together with certification by the forester that all land shown as eligible
				land on the type map is forest land as defined in section
				199.1 of this Part.