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Corpsmember Jesus Lopez uses a chainsaw to remove branches on a downed tree at the Lost Claim Campground in the Stanislaus National Forest.
Credit: CCC

May 3, 2025 - The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) reports on April 28, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee heard and passed two bills that provide California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) relief for wildfire prevention projects.

AB 1227 (Ellis, R-Bakersfield and Gallagher, R-East Nicolaus) creates a narrow CEQA exemption for critical fuels reduction projects located in very high fire hazard severity zones, including:

  • Removal of hazardous, dead, or dying trees.
  • Removal of vegetation to create strategic fuel breaks.
  • Removal of vegetation along roadways, highways, and freeways for safer ingress and egress.
  • Removal of vegetation through cultural burning or prescribed fire.
  • Maintenance of fuel breaks or fuel modification projects.

Projects are limited to those that remove nonnative species that is 8” or less in diameter, and the exemption sunsets on January 1, 2028.  RCRC was pleased to testify in support of the bill in committee. RCRC’s letter of support is available here.

AB 1456 (Bryan, D-Los Angeles) requires CalFire to update the California Vegetation Treatment Program Environmental Impact Report (VTP EIR) to expand the treatable landscape; describe how biomass will be disposed; and integrate indigenous knowledge and tribal ecological knowledge.  CalFire’s VTP EIR expedites fuel reduction and forest health improvement projects by streamlining California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance for those projects.  Local agencies can comply with CEQA by tiering off of the VTP EIR, thereby significantly reducing the cost and delays associated with CEQA compliance.  RCRC’s letter of support is available here.

The Assembly Natural Resources Committee previously passed AB 66 (Tangipa, R-Clovis), which creates a CEQA exemption for egress-related projects in subdivisions of 30 or more units without a secondary egress route and where the Board of Forestry recommended creation of a secondary access route. RCRC’s letter of support is available here.

All three bills await consideration by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. 

ABOUT RURAL COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA (RCRC)
The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) is a thirty-seven member county strong service organization that champions policies on behalf of California’s rural counties. RCRC is dedicated to representing the collective unique interests of its membership, providing legislative and regulatory representation at the State and Federal levels, and providing responsible services for its members to enhance and protect the quality of life in rural California counties. To learn more about RCRC, visit rcrcnet.org and follow @RuralCounties on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Source: RCRC