BLM Collaborative Capacity Rex Reservoir Road Project
Summary
SCH Number
2026040423
Public Agency
Nevada County
Document Title
BLM Collaborative Capacity Rex Reservoir Road Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/9/2026
Document Description
A cooperative effort to perform fuel reduction activities to reduce the potential for high severity wildfire in the wildland-urban interface. The purpose of the project is to safeguard existing adjacent communities from the potential of catastrophic wildfire and enhance forest health on Bureau of Land Management lands. The project will manually remove ladder fuels and trees with diameters less than 12 inches diameter at breast height and will extend approximately 10' from the edge of the road.
Contact Information
Name
Alex Geritz
Agency Name
Nevada County Office of Emergency Services
Job Title
Forestry Projects Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Unincorporated portion of Nevada County
Counties
Nevada
Regions
Unincorporated
Cross Streets
Rex Reservoir Road and Osceola Ravine Wy
Zip
95975
Total Acres
6
State Highways
Hwy 20
Waterways
Squirrel Creek, unnamed tributary to Rex Reservoir, Rex Ditch
Township
16N
Range
7E
Section
25, 30
Base
MDM
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
4799.05(d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
Tho Proposed Project was reviewed in its entirety under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). Under Public Resources Code. section 4799.05. subd. (d)(1) and (d)(1)(A), the California Environmental Quality Act (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 NEPA of 1969 (42 U.S.C, Sec. 4321 , et seq .) if the primary role of the local agency is to provide funding or staffing ,or those projects. The primary role of the Nevada County Office of Emergency Services is to provide staffing support to the Bureau of Land Management.
County Clerk
Nevada
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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