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<br /> <br />Relevant Laws, Ordinances and Programs <br /> <br />Table 6-2. Summary of Relevant State Agencies, Programs and Regulations <br /> <br />Agency, Program or Regulation <br />Hazard Mitigation <br />Area Affected <br /> <br />Relevance <br />AB 9: Fire safety: Wildfires: Fire <br />Adapted Communities <br />Wildfire Hazard Establishes the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program to support <br />regional leadership to build local and regional capacity and develop, prioritize, <br />and implement strategies and projects that create fire-adapted communities <br />and landscapes by improving watershed health, forest health, community <br />wildfire preparedness, and fire resilience. <br />AB 32: The California Global <br />Warming Solutions Act <br />Action Plan <br />Development <br />Establishes a state goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels <br />by 2020 <br />AB 38: Fire safety: Low-Cost <br />Retrofits: Regional Capacity <br />Review: Wildfire Mitigation <br />Wildfire Hazard Directs the California Natural Resources Agency to review the regional <br />capacity of each county that contains a very high fire hazard severity zone <br />and establishes a comprehensive wildfire mitigation and assistance program. <br />AB 70: Flood Liability Flood Hazard A city or county may be required to partially compensate for property damage <br />caused by a flood if it unreasonably approves new development in areas <br />protected by a state flood control project <br />AB 162: Flood Planning Flood Hazard Cities and counties must address flood-related matters in the land use, <br />conservation, and safety and housing elements of their general plans. <br />AB 267: California Environmental <br />Quality Act: Exemption: <br />Prescribed Fire, Thinning, and <br />Fuel Reduction Projects. <br />Wildfire Hazard Extends to January 1, 2026, the exemption from requirements of the <br />California Environmental Quality Act for prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel <br />reduction projects on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire <br />that had been reviewed under the National Environmental Policy Act. <br />AB 380: Forestry: Priority Fuel <br />Reduction Projects <br />Wildfire Hazard Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify priority <br />fuel reduction projects annually and exempts the identified priority fuel <br />reduction projects from certain legal requirements. <br />AB 431: Forestry: Timber <br />Harvesting Plans: Defensible <br />Space: Exemptions <br />Wildfire Hazard Extends to January 1, 2026, the exemption from a requirement to complete a <br />timber harvest plan for maintaining defensible space between 150 feet and <br />300 feet from a habitable structure. <br />AB 497: Forestry and Fire <br />Protection: Local Assistance <br />Grant Program: Fire Prevention <br />Activities: Street and Road <br />Vegetation Management <br />Wildfire Hazard Appropriates funds for local assistance grants for fire prevention activities with <br />priority for projects that manage vegetation along streets and roads to prevent <br />the ignition of wildfire. <br />AB 575: Civil Liability: Prescribed <br />Burning Activities: Gross <br />Negligence <br />Wildfire Hazard Provides that a private entity engaging in a prescribed burning activity that is <br />supervised by a person certified as burn boss is liable for damages to a third <br />party only if the prescribed burning activity was carried out in a grossly <br />negligent manner. <br />AB 642: Wildfires Wildfire Hazard Makes changes to support cultural and prescribed fire, including the creation <br />of a Cultural Burning Liaison at the Department of Forestry and Fire <br />Protection, and requires a proposal for creating a prescribed fire training <br />center. <br />AB 747: General Plans—Safety <br />Element <br />Hazard Mitigation <br />Planning <br />The safety elements of cities’ and counties’ general plans must address <br />evacuation routes and include any new information on flood and fire hazards <br />and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies. <br />AB 800: Wildfires: local general <br />plans: safety elements: fire <br />hazard severity zones. <br />Wildfire Hazard Establishes provisions for wildfire hazard mapping and applications for that <br />mapping in General Plan Safety Elements. <br />AB 1255: Fire prevention: <br />Department of Forestry and Fire <br />Protection: Grant Programs <br />Wildfire Hazard Requires the Natural Resources Agency to develop a guidance document that <br />describes goals, approaches, opportunities, and best practices in each region <br />of the state for ecologically appropriate, habitat-specific fire risk reduction. <br />Requires consultation with counties related to the Department of Forestry and <br />Fire Protection’s local fire prevention grant program. <br /> <br /> <br />6-3