CSAC AENR has been closely monitoring the development of new Fire
Safe Regulations at the Board of Forestry (BOF) over the past
several months. These new Fire Safe Regulations will be extend
beyond the State Responsibility Area into the Local
Responsibility Areas Very High Fire Severity Zone and could
have a major impact on counties. CSAC is part of a coalition of
local government advocates that are working to impact the
development of these new regulations. The Board has made changes
from the timeline that CSAC shared in
last week’s bulletin.
Please find the updated timeline below. CSAC is supportive of
these changes in the timeline that will allow for a more detailed
stakeholder review.
The BOF expects to release a new strikeout/underline draft of
proposed changes on Monday, February 8th.
The BOF has canceled its previously scheduled February
9th workshop.
The BOF will schedule a new public workshop the week of
February 22nd to discuss the new strikeout draft. The
date and time for this meeting is TBD.
The Board will be requesting comments on the strikeout draft
by COB Wednesday, February 17th prior to the workshop
on February 22nd.
CSAC will send out the new strikeout draft when it becomes
available to the county fire safe working group and put a copy of
the document in the CSAC bulletin. When the new draft becomes
available CSAC will strongly encourage counties to provide
comments to the Board of Forestry about the impact of the
proposed changes in your county. If you have any questions about
this process please email Nick Cronenwett at ncronenwett@counties.org.
