Timber Harvest

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Overview of the Timber Harvest Activites Waiver Program, 28 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
For more information, contact our Redding office at (530) 224-4845.

Timber Harvest Waiver for Activities on Federal and Non-Federal Lands

Order No. R5-2010-0022, 394 KB, PDF (PDF Info), Conditional Waiver of Waste Discharge Requirements for Discharges Related to Timber Harvest Activities, adopted 18 March 2010 and revised by the State Water Resources Control Board on 19 September 2011. Includes Attachment A (Categorical Waiver), Attachment B (Monitoring and Reporting Conditions) and Attachment C (Monitoring and Reporting Program). For more information, contact Angela Wilson at (530) 224-4856 or by email at awilson@waterboards.ca.gov.

Enrollment Forms for activities on non-federal lands
- Non-federal Waiver Certification Notice Instructions, 59 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Non-federal Waiver Certification Notice for Categories 1 - 4
    - Adobe Acrobat Format, 44 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
    - MS Word Format, 109 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Addendum form
    - Adobe Acrobat Format, 40 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
    - MS Word Format, 94 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Notice of Non-Applicability form
    - Adobe Acrobat Format, 42 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
    - MS Word Format, 105 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
- Notice of Termination form Instructions (Categories 1-4), 50 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Notice of Termination form
    - Adobe Acrobat Format, 54 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
    - MS Word Format, 108 KB, PDF (PDF Info)

Enrollment Forms for activities on federal US Forest Service lands
For additional information, contact Marty Hartzell at (916) 464-4630 or by email at mhartzell@waterboards.ca.gov.
- Federal Waiver Certification Notice and Notice of Termination Forms
  - Federal Waiver Certification Notice form
    - Adobe Acrobat Format, 24 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
    - MS Word Format, 45 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Federal Waiver Notice of Termination form
    - Adobe Acrobat Format, 24 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
    - MS Word Format, 45 KB, PDF (PDF Info)

Guidelines for Required Waiver Monitoring on private and federal U.S. Forest Service lands
For additional information, contact Drew Coe at (530) 224-2437 or by email at dbrcoe@waterboards.ca.gov.
- Guidelines for Waiver Monitoring
  - Part 1: Introduction, table of contents, what to monitor, determining significant pollution (pages 1-12), 967 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Part 2: more on determining significant pollution, what type of monitoring, (pages 13-20), 2.1 MB*, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Part 3: more on what type of monitoring to do (pages 21-26), 2.72 MB*, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Part 4: more on what type of monitoring to do (pages 22-33), 2.67 MB*, PDF (PDF Info)
  - Part 5: more on what type of monitoring to do, reporting requirements for monitoring results, literature citations (pages 34-40), 349 KB, PDF (PDF Info)

For more information contact the staff below who are responsible for the county your project is located in:

Redding Office	Contact:	Phone	Email
TEH, YUB, BUT, SIE, GLE	Drew Coe	(530) 224-2437	dbrcoe@waterboards.ca.gov
SIS, MOD, LAS	Debra Hallis	(530) 224-4801	dhallis@waterboards.ca.gov
SHA	Matt Boone	(530) 224-4849	mboone@waterboards.ca.gov
PLU	Trey Sherrell	(530) 224-4203	rsherrell@waterboards.ca.gov
Sacramento Office	Marty Hartzell	(916) 464-4630	mhartzell@waterboards.ca.gov
Fresno Office	Anthony Toto	(559) 445-6278	atoto@waterboards.ca.gov

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--Web page updated 01/08/2013