Roadside Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction
Summary
SCH Number
2026020023
Public Agency
Nevada County
Document Title
Roadside Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
2/2/2026
Document Description
A cooperative effort to perform forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services to treat insect and disease infected trees; activities to reduce hazardous fuels; and any other activities to restore or improve forest, rangeland, and watershed health through two Good Neighbor Authority agreements between the Tahoe National Forest and the Nevada County Office of Emergency Services, as authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Contact Information
Name
Alex Geritz
Agency Name
Nevada County Office of Emergency Services
Job Title
Forestry Projects Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Unincorporated portions of Nevada County
Counties
Nevada
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
N/A
Zip
Various
Total Acres
Up to 5,750
Jobs
5
Parcel #
N/A
State Highways
20, 89
Railways
0
Airports
0
Schools
0
Waterways
South Yuba River, Stampede Reservoir, Scotts Flat Reservoir, N. Fork Deer Ck, Rock Ck etal
Township
Multi
Range
Multi
Section
Multi
Base
MDM
Other Location Info
Within the Tahoe National Forest, Yuba Ranger District and Tahoe Ranger District.
Other Information
Coordinates are approximately geographic center
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
4799.05(d)
Reasons for Exemption
CEQA does not apply to prescribed fire, reforestation, habitat restoration, thinning, or fuel reduction projects, or to related activities included in the project description, undertaken, in whole or in part, on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 if a state or local agency is undertaking those projects pursuant to the federal Good Neighbor Authority or a stewardship agreement with the federal government entered into pursuant to Public Law 113-79.
The proposed projects were reviewed in their entirety under the following: Yuba Ranger District, Tahoe National Forest NEPA, Western Nevada County Community Defense Project - Deer Creek EA and FONSI (2016); Yuba Ranger District, Tahoe National Forest NEPA, South Yuba Roadside Fuel Break CE (2025), Tahoe Ranger District, Tahoe National Forest NEPA, Truckee Ranger District Roadside Fuel Break Expansion DM (2023), and Tahoe National Forest, Nevada City Ranger District Washington Fuels Reduction Project DN/FNOSI (2004) .
County Clerk
Nevada
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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