BILL NUMBER: AB 2082	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Dahle  and Chesbro 
 , Chesbro,   and Gordon 
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Bigelow,   Olsen,   and Wieckowski  
) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Gaines
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to  repeal and  add Section 
4561.1 of   4561.2 to  the Public Resources Code,
relating to forest practices.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2082, as amended, Dahle. Forest practices: resource
conservation standards: stocking standards.
   The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person
from conducting timber operations on timberland unless a timber
harvesting plan has been prepared by a registered professional
forester and has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection and approved by the Director of Forestry and Fire
Protection or the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection.
   Existing law establishes minimum acceptable stocking standards and
provides that an area covered by a timber harvesting plan is
considered acceptably stocked if certain conditions are met within 5
years after completion of timber operations, including that the area
contains an average point count of 300 per acre, as provided.
Existing law requires the board to adopt stocking standards for each
district, after a public hearing, that are equal to or stricter than
the minimum standards.
   This bill would  delete that requirement and instead
 authorize the board to adopt alternative stocking standards
if those alternative standards  are necessary to 
 reasonably  address variables in forest characteristics
 and achieve suitable resource conservation  , as provided.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Section 4561.1 of the Public
Resources Code is repealed. 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 
4561.1   4561.2  is added to the Public Resources
Code, to read:
    4561.1.   4561.2.   Notwithstanding
 Section 4561.1 or  the resource conservation standards
 relating to stocking enumerated  in 
subdivision (a) of  Section 4561, the board may adopt
alternative stocking standards  to   that 
meet the purposes of Section 4561 if those alternative standards
 are necessary to   reasonably  address the
variables in forest characteristics  and achieve suitable
resource conservation  .