Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership (Phase 3)
Summary
SCH Number
2025100597
Public Agency
Resource Conservation District of Tehama County
(RCD-TC)
Document Title
Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership (Phase 3)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/14/2025
Document Description
The Tehama Mendocino Fuels Reduction Partnership (Phase 3) will improve Mendocino 2020 National August Forest Complex (MNF) lands within Tehama County that have been negatively impacted by the Fire. Combined, the components of this landscape-scale, post-fire restoration and reforestation forest health project will encompass 1,142 acres of conifer forests, chaparral District lands and grassland meadows. This collaboration includes the Resource Conservation cohesive of climate Tehama County (RCDTC), and the MNF. Who willwork together to co-create a completed by March resilient, fire adapted landscape. All Phase 3 activity is anticipated to be 30, 2030.
Contact Information
Name
Seronica Biggs
Agency Name
Resource Conservation District of Tehama County
Job Title
District Forester
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Location
Counties
Tehama
Regions
Countywide
Total Acres
1715
Base
571
Other Location Info
Located on United States Forest Service lands, within that portion of the South Coast Range within Western Tehama County.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
Per 4 799.05(d)(1) of the California Code, CEQA does not apply to prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel reduction projects undertaken on federal lands that reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under provisions established in the National Environmental Protection Act. This exemption is contingent upon whether the primary role of a state or local agency is to provide funding or staffing for such projects. In connection with Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project (Phase 3) efforts, the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County is providing project funding obtained through the California Climate Investments Forest Health Grant Program in order to conduct fuel reduction activities on federal lands within the Mendocino National Forest. The RCDTC is also providing project management and other personnel necessary to implement project work. The Tehama Mendocino Fuel Reduction Partnership Project (Phase 3) scope of work described under Description of Nature, Purpose, and Beneficiaries of Project: shown above meet the conditions of California Code 4799.05(d)(1) in that those portions of the project area located on Mendocino National Forest lands have been analyzed under US Forest Service environment analysis processes as described in a NEPA Environmental Assessment document and USFS Categorical Exclusion prepared for each project component described above.
County Clerk
Tehama
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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