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IN SB0313
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Senate Bill No. 313 Summary
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Requires persons seeking permits, leases, or contracts to remove merchantable timber to obtain written approval from all counties where removal trucks will operate.
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Mandates the Department of Natural Resources prepare and publish cost-benefit analyses using U.S. Forest Service methodology before issuing timber removal permits for state forests.
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Cost-benefit analyses must delineate categories including department costs and benefits, state and local government impacts, habitat effects, environmental consequences, recreational impacts, and timber industry effects.
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Prohibits the department from advertising or soliciting bids for merchantable timber removal until the cost-benefit analysis has been published on the department's website for at least 30 days.
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Takes effect July 1, 2018.
Legislative Description
Timber management. Requires that, before a permit, lease, or contract is issued to a person to remove merchantable timber, the person must secure a written approval from all counties in which any truck to be used in the removal operation is to be driven. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to prepare and publish on the department's Internet web site a cost-benefit analysis concerning the removal of merchantable timber from state forests. Provides that the department may not advertise or solicit bids for the removal of merchantable timber from a state forest until the cost-benefit analysis has been published
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
1/4/2018