Section 1666.4 - Qualifying Projects(a) Grants shall be awarded to Eligible Applicants providing fire prevention activities, including but not limited to those specified in the following subsections, that reduce the risk and potential impact of wildfire to Habitable Structures within the SRA. Qualifying projects include those related to hazardous fuel (vegetation) reduction, fire prevention education, and fire prevention planning. Multiple project types (e.g., hazardous fuel reduction and fire prevention education) may be proposed in a single SRAFPF Grant Application.(b) Qualifying hazardous fuel reduction Projects include using manual, mechanical, prescribed fire, herbivory, or herbicide treatments to meet at least one of the following objectives: (1) Create or maintain Fuel Breaks;(2) Remove ladder fuels and thin crown fuels to reduce the risk of crown fires;(3) Reduce fuel loading in locations identified in the CAL FIRE Unit/Contract County Fire Plan, Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), or other strategic fire plan;(4) Community level fire prevention programs such as community chipping, roadside chipping, and green waste bin programs;(5) Modify vegetation adjacent to roads to provide for safer ingress and egress of evacuating residents and responding emergency personnel during wildfire activities;(6) Reduce fuel loading around critical community infrastructure, including, but not limited to, domestic and municipal water supplies, powerlines, and communications facilities.(c) Qualifying fire prevention education Projects include fire prevention public education programs addressing wildland fire risks to SRA communities and/or defensible space education.(d) Qualifying fire prevention planning Projects include wildfire risk or related mapping and/or the creation, administration, monitoring or updating of strategic wildfire planning documents, such as a CWPP or Community Evacuation Plan.(e) Other qualifying Projects is a category included to allow applicants to propose activities designed to reduce the risk and potential impact to Habitable Structures in the SRA that do not fit cleanly into the categories above. Projects submitted in this category shall clearly explain the wildfire risk reduction benefits of the Project to Habitable Structures in the SRA.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 14, § 1666.4
1. New section filed 8-15-2016; operative 10-1-2016 (Register 2016, No. 34). Note: Authority cited: Sections 4111, 4212 and 4214, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 4102, 4112, 4113, 4114, 4214, 4740 and 4741, Public Resources Code.
1. New section filed 8-15-2016; operative 10/1/2016 (Register 2016, No. 34).