Spanish Flat North: Phase III Chili Bar to Georgetown Fuel Reduction Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025101000
Public Agency
El Dorado County Resource Conservation District
Document Title
Spanish Flat North: Phase III Chili Bar to Georgetown Fuel Reduction Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/22/2025
Document Description
CAL FIRE is providing funding to the El Dorado County Fire Safe Council to restore up to 637 acres through mechanical and manual fuels reduction and biomass removal forest health treatment activities. These treatments will occur in private parcels, positions within the Georgetown District of the Eldorado National Forest and sections within the BLM Motherload District near Kelsey-Garden Valley will reduce wildfire risks to local resources and community members, promote ecosystem diversity and resilience, reduce fuels and promote ecosystem diversity and resilience, control invasive species, reduce fuel hazard, improve wildlife habitat, increase water yield, and enhance watersheds
Contact Information
Name
Mark Egbert
Agency Name
Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation District
Job Title
District Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Cool
Counties
El Dorado
Regions
Unincorporated
Cross Streets
Traverse Creek
Zip
95633
Total Acres
637
Jobs
4
State Highways
193
Township
11N
Range
10
Section
12,13
Base
MDBM
Other Location Info
The project is located in the vicinity of the Traverse Creek and Shoo Fly Road on the Georgetown Ranger District, Eldorado National Forest as well as BLM land located between the South Fork of the American River and the vicinity of Meadow Brook in El Dorado County.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
CEQA does not apply to fuel reduction, reforestation, & habitat restoration projects undertaken, in whole or in part, on federal lands to reduce the risk of high severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the NEPA, if the primary role of a state or local agency is providing funding or staffing for those projects. The proposed project was reviewed under the (1) Georgetown Resource Conservation District Fuels Reduction Project NEPA EA & DN-FONSI, signed April 8, 2022, (2) Hazard Removal and Vegetation Management Project NEPA EA & DN-FONSI, signed February 15, 2019, and (3) Kelsey Wildfire Resilience Project NEPA EA & DN-FONSI, signed April 25, 2022. NEPA coverage for this project is 831 acres, with initial treatments at 377 acres. The NEPA record of project approval is available to the General Public at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/eldorado/projects and/or https://goo.gl/v3WCAe, and https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/home.
County Clerk
El Dorado
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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