Designate Explained

The “Designate” (or Mark Designate) is a new concept introduced June 1, 2007 for woodlots to allow for more timber marks to be available.  It does NOT replace the licence # or the Road Permit (RP) #.  It is only used for TIMBER MARKS.

Each woodlot has been assigned a “designate”.  It is a 4 character identifier, beginning with W, that can be found on the main “Tenure” screen in FTA (also in the attached spreadsheet). 

So for woodlot licence # 0123 with RP # 45678 and “designate” WABC, the licence number remains W0123 and the RP # remains R45678.  The Licence document & Road Permit document are NOT changed. 

However for all NEW crown land harvesting applications the “designate” will be used for the TIMBER MARK. 

For new cutting permits (CP) the TIMBER MARK will be the 4 character “designate” plus 2 LETTERS (whatever the licensee wants to use to identify his CP (but they MUST be 2 letters)).  For example if they want to call it CP FM the new TIMBER MARK will be WABCFM.  It is the CP document that has the TIMBER MARK identified. 

For RPs , applications for NEW harvesting, the TIMBER MARK will have the 4 character “designate” plus R1 (this has been automatically generated by the system and can be found on the “CP/Mark” screen in FTA if there is a valid RP in place).  For this example the road permit TIMBER MARK would be WABCR1. 

For RP’s, when new harvesting (new section or amendment) is applied for the RP document will need to be amended, and notification sent to the licensee, to identify the new TIMBER MARK (WABCR1 in this example).

For electronic submissions the only place that the “designate” is needed is in the ECAS submission as part of the TIMBER MARK.