LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1252, as amended, Portantino. Forestry: timber harvesting
plans.
Existing law requires a person conducting timber operations to
prepare and submit to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
a timber harvesting plan, and authorizes a person who intends to
become a nonindustrial tree farmer to file with the department a
nonindustrial management plan, prepared by a registered professional
forester.
This bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection, on or before July 1, 2010, to establish a uniform
searchable database on the its
Internet Web site containing timber harvest plans and
nonindustrial timber management plans submitted to the department for
logging projects proposed to be conducted on nonfederal and private
land in the state. The department would be required to post any
comment letters on those plans from relevant state agencies or
departments no later than 7 days after receipt. The bill would
also require the department, by January 1, 2011, to post past timber
harvest plans dating back to those approved in 2005 for all
regions on the its Internet
Web site . The bill would require by January 1, 2012, the
department to report to the Legislature on the feasibility of posting
timber harvesting plans approved in 2004 and earlier on its Internet
Web site.