South Shore Fuels Reduction Waste Discharge Requirements

• Proposed Waste Discharge Requirement
  • Attachments - A: Definitions and List of Acronyms
  • Attachments - B: Basin Plan Excerpts
  • Attachments - C: Monitoring and Reporting Program with the following attachments:
    1. Bioassessment Monitoring Requirements
    2. Implementation Monitoring Checklist
    3. Daily Winter Period Monitoring Form
    4. Winter Implementation Monitoring Form
    5. Effectiveness Monitoring Form
    6. Forensic Monitoring Form
    7. Photo-Point Monitoring Form
  • Attachments - D: Notice of Activity Completion Form
  • Attachments - E: Maps and Tables with the following attachments:
    1. Map 1 - Treatment and Transportation System
    2. Map 2 - NW Quadrant
    3. Map 3 - NE Quadrant
    4. Map 4 - SE Quadrant
    5. Map 5 - SW Quadrant
  • Attachments - F: Best Management Practices and Mitigation Measures
  • Attachments - G: Rationale for Bioassessment Monitoring
  • Attachments - H: CEQA Environmental Checklist
  • Attachments - I: Standard Provisions
  • Attachments - J: Forestry Activities Exempt from Requiring Basin Plan Discharge Prohibition Exemptions Under the 2009 Timber Waiver
• Late Revisions to the Proposed WDR (posted April 4, 2012)
• Responses to Comments on Tentative WDR
  1. California Forestry Association
     1. CFA comment
     2. CFA response
  2. Fire MAC - Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team
     1. Fire MAC comment
     2. Fire MAC response
  3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
     1. EPA comment
     2. EPA response
  4. Lake Valley Fire
     1. LVF comment
     2. LVF response
• Responses to Comments on Proposed WDR, received by April 2, 2012
  1. Fire MAC - Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team
     1. Fire MAC comment
     2. Fire MAC response - coming soon!
  2. CALFIRE
     1. CALFIRE comment
     2. CALFIRE response - coming soon!
  3. Jon Hoefer
     1. Hoefer comment
     2. Hoefer response - coming soon!

Public Comment Period on the Lahontan Water Board Proposed Waste Discharge Requirements for the USFS Lake Tahoe Management Unit (LTBMU) South Shore Fuel Reduction and Healthy Forest Restoration Project (South Shore Project) – The Lahontan Water Board is acting as the Lead Agency under the California Environmental Quality Act for the above project. The Water Board anticipates considering waste discharge requirements for the LTBMU South Shore Project at the April 2012 Lahontan Water Board Meeting. The Water Board will be evaluating the LTBMU’s Final Environmental Impact Statement as part of its regulatory decision.

Please provide comments on this document to the Water Board by April 2, 2012 at Noon, which is approximately ten (10) days before the Board Meeting.

(Updated 4/5/12)