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| − | == Grant Conditions == | + | == [[Preparedness/CalFire2018Grants/CalFire2018GrantElements/CalFire2018GrantConditions | Grant Conditions ]] == |
| − | # Grants can be made only to “eligible” applicants.
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| − | # Projects must include or provide benefits to habitable structures in the State Responsibility Area (SRA). Non-SRA lands may be included within project boundaries but project activities must provide a benefit to SRA.
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| − | # Fire Prevention qualifying projects and activities are limited to those where the proposed project or activity addresses the risk or potential impact of wildfire to communities and forested landscapes.
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| − | # Applicants must consider greenhouse gas emissions of project activities and plan to reduce emissions as much as possible during project activities.
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| − | # Grantees must have the ability to satisfactorily plan, administer, and complete a grantproject
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| − | # For some projects, the grantee may be required to prepare a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) or National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document. Those projects requiring CEQA/NEPA review are required to provide documented compliance with in 12 months from the grant execution.CEQA/NEPA compliance must begin immediately after grant execution. Documented CEQA/NEPA compliance is required prior to commencing any on -the-ground activity.
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| − | # Fire Prevention grant projects are eligible to qualify for CEQA suspension pursuant to the Governor’s 10-30-2015 Emergency Proclamation if the applicant certifies the following:
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| − | ## The project is located within a High Hazard Zone; and
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| − | ## The project is removing dead and dying trees that pose a threat to public health,safety, or located in Tier 2 high hazard zones, and
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| − | ## The removal of dead and dying trees will comply with the Tree Mortality Task Force (TMTF) Guidelines for removal of dead and dying trees dated March 1, 2016, see Appendix A – CEQA Compliance.
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| | + | == Application == |
| | + | This is a PDF document under Resources. As it is a PDF with forms you may have to use Acrobat |
| | + | == Scope of Work == |
| | + | Starting with an [[/Preparedness/CalFire2018Grants/CalFire2018GrantElements|example]] / template document we're gathering notes/writing fragments |
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| | + | == Supporting Documents == |
| | + | Catherine has provided |
| | + | * A copy of the Road Washout Letter which went out showing how we communicate within the canyon |
| | + | * a PDF of revisions, which look to turn the Company into a 510(c)(12). '''I thought it was a (6)?''' |
| | + | * the bylaws of the BMWC |
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| | + | Ross has provided |
| | + | * A PDF of the articles of Incorporation of the Butano Mutual Water Company. The PDF shows the endorsement. |
| | + | Ethan has provided |
| | + | * CEQA request/form for the Washout Project |
| | + | * budget sheet for Water Plant improvements. I had thought there would be a big formal document for the state / county etc, but it looks nope |
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| − | | + | === missing ( may be incomplete ) === |
| − | | + | * STD 204 - Payee Data Record |
| − | | + | * STD 19 - Nondiscrimination Compliance Statement |
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| + | * STD 21 - Drug Free Workplace |
| − | Costs already funded or budgeted through another source (i.e. supplanting).
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| − | Income, fees, revenues, or wages lost or voluntarily waived by a local agency.
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| − | Activities or costs associ
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| − | ated with permanent work such the construction of a
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| − | biomass facility.
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| − | Examples of
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| − | non
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| − | qualifying
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| − | project types and activities:
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| − | Purchase of capital equipment greater than $100,000.
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| − | Installation, creation, upgrade, or maintenance of fire protection feature
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| − | s,
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| − | such as roads, bridges, structures or water storage facilities.
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| − | Any project submitted by a for
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| − | profit company or corporation.
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| − | Projects or activities utilizing CAL FIRE staff without corresponding
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| − | reimbursements or requests seeking funding for services a
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| − | lready provided by
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| − | CAL FIRE.
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| − | Removal of dead and dying trees that do not pose a threat to public health
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| − | and safety
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| − | , and, are not located in Tier 2 high hazard zones
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| − | **
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| − | Grants must be completed by March 15,
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| − | 2022. **
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| − | Conditions
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| − | 1.
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| − | Grants can be made only to
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| − | eligible”
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| − | applicants
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| − | 2.
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| − | Projects must in
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| − | clude or
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| − | provide benefits to habitable structures in the
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| − | State
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| − | Responsibility Area
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| − | (SRA). Non | |
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| − | SRA lands may be included within project
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| − | boundaries but project activities must provide a benefit to SRA.
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| − | 3.
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| − | Fire Prevention
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| − | q
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| − | ualifying projects and a
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| − | ctivities
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| − | are limited to those where the
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| − | proposed
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| − | project or
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| − | activity addresses the risk or potential impact of wildfire to
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| − | communities and forested landscapes.
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| − | 4.
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| − | Applicants must consider greenhouse gas emissions of project activit
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| − | ies and plan
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| − | to reduce emissions as much as possible during project activities.
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| − | 5.
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| − | Grantees must have the
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| − | ability to satisfactorily plan,
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| − | administer
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| − | , and complete a
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| − | grant
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| − | project
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| − | 6.
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| − | For some projects, the grantee may be required to prepare a California
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| − | Envi
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| − | ronmenta
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| − | l Quality Act (CEQA)
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| − | or
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| − | National Environmental Policy Act (
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| − | NEPA
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| − | document.
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| − | Those projects requiring CEQA
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| − | /NEPA
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| − | review
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| − | are required to provide
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| − | documented compliance with
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| − | months from the
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| − | grant e
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| − | xecution.
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| − | CEQA/NEPA compliance must begin immediatel
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| − | y a
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| − | fter grant execution.
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| − | Documented CEQA
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| − | /NEPA
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| − | compliance is required prior to commencing any
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| − | ground activity.
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| − | 7.
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| − | Fire Prevention
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| − | grant projects are eligible to qualify for CEQA suspension
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| − | pursuant to
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| − | the Governor’s
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| − | 15 E
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| − | mergency Proclamation if
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| − | the applicant
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| − | certifies the following:
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| − | 6
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| − | a.
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| − | The project is located within a High Hazard Zone
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| − | ;
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| − | and
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| − | b.
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| − | The project is removing dead and dying trees that po
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| − | se a threat to public
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| − | health,
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| − | safety
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| − | or located in Tier 2 high hazard zones,
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| − | and
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| − | The removal of dead and dyin
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| − | g trees will comply with the
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| − | Tree Mortality
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| − | Task Force (TMTF)
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| − | Guidelines for removal of dead and dying trees date
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| − | March 1, 2016, see Appendix
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| − | CEQA Compliance
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| − | 8.
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| − | Projects proposed on a “forested landscape” will require
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| − | R
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| − | PF
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| − | to design and
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| − | oversee any f
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| − | uel hazard reduction vegetation removal
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| − | as
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| − | defined in Public
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| − | Resource
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| − | Code
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| − | 753
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| − | 754
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| − | . The RPF will conduct at
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| − | least one site visit during active project operations to ensure vegetation removal
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| − | is being conducted according to the pre
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| − | RPF
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| − | is not required to
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| − | provide the general project information required in the Scope of Work during the
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| − | grant application phase, but the applicant must demonstrate how CEQA
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| − | /NEPA
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| − | compliance
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| − | will be met, including RPF involvement, in Item E4 o
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| − | f the Project
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| − | Scope of Work and include this cost in the budget if applicable.
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| − | PRC
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| − | “Forestry,” as used in this article, refers to the science and
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| − | practice of managing forested landscapes and the treatment of the forest
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| − | cover in general, and includ
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| − | es, among other things, the application of
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| − | scientific knowledge and forestry principles in the fields of fuels management
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| − | and forest protection, timber growing and utilization, forest inventories, forest
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| − | economics, forest valuation and finance, and the eva
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| − | luation and mitigation of
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| − | impacts from forestry activities on watershed and scenic values, to achieve
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| − | the purposes of this article. The practice of forestry applies only to those
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| − | activities undertaken on forested landscapes. The professions specified in
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| − | ction 772 are not practicing forestry when mitigating or recommending
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| − | mitigation of impacts from previous forestry activities on related watershed or
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| − | ecological values within their area of professional expertise or when
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| − | recommending those mitigations for p
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| − | roposed timber operations. However,
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| − | public and private foresters are required to be licensed pursuant to this article
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| − | when making evaluations and determinations of the appropriate overall
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| − | combination of mitigations of impacts from forestry activities neces
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| − | sary to
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| − | protect all forest resources.
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| − | 9.
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| − | Projects outside of a “forested landscape” should consider the use of a
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| − | professional ecologist, biologist, certified rangeland manager,
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| − | arborist, RPF
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| − | or
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| − | other professional
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| − | with knowledge of local ecosystem processes
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| − | to develop an
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| − | appropriate fuel haz
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| − | ard reduction removal project.
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| − | Fuel reduction vegetation treatment prescriptions shall focus on reducing fire
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| − | hazard, improving tree growth, an
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| − | d increasing forest resilience.
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| − | Treatments shall
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| − | eliminate the vertical and hor
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| − | izontal continuity of vegetative fuels for the purpose
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| − | of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration
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| − | intensity, fuel ignitability, or
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| − | ignition of tree crowns.
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| − | 11.
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| − | Required project deliverables for all hazardous fuel reduction projects to be
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| − | included in I
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| − | tem E3 of the Project Scope of Work
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| − | Pre
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| − | post
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| − | treatment description of site conditions and project results
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| − | relative to
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| − | hazardous tree or
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| − | vegetative conditions
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| − | wildfire hazard
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| − | reduction goal accomplishments
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| − | dead
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| − | and dying tree
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| − | counts
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| − | or measurable metric for evaluation of the project (such as number
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| − | of acres treated)
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| − | b.
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| − | GIS data files supporting the project map to allow CAL FIRE to accurately
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| − | document the
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| − | spatial extent of the project.
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| − | c.
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| − | Documented CEQA
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| − | /NEPA
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| − | compliance within
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| − | 12
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| − | months
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| − | of
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| − | grant
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| − | execution.
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| − | This
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| − | includes
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| − | CEQA or demonstration of exemption.
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| − | Documentation of at least one site visit during active project operations to
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| − | ensure vegetation removal is being conducted according to the
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| − | prescription.
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| − | 12.
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| − | Grant
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| − | applications
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| − | describe t
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| − | he method used to determine
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| − | the grant amount
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| − | requested.
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| − | This m
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| − | ethodology must include the grant costs
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| − | less
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| − | any income from
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| − | forest product
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| − | or other revenues received from the grant implementation.
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| − | All project
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| − | and activity
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| − | work related to grants must be co
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| − | mpleted by
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| − | March 15, 202
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| − | Final invoices for grant
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| − | related work must be submitted to CAL FIRE no later
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| − | than April 30, 2022.
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| − | 15.
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| − | Projects must demonstrate all efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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| − | Projects most likely to have significant emissions red
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| − | uctions will be favored
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