OPERATIONAL AND SITE PLANNING REGULATION


	Regulations - Forest Practices Code of BC Act OPERATIONAL AND SITE PLANNING REGULATION Contents B.C. Reg. 107/98 Deposited April 2, 1998 O.C. 0426/98 effective June 15, 1998 (Consolidated to December 12, 2003) PART 1 - INTERPRETATION 1. Definitions Definitions: from "Act" to "riparian reserve zone" From definition "risk of sediment delivery to stream" to sub-section (4) PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION 1.1 Criteria for giving effect to operational plans 2. Joint approval - Repealed 3. Effective term and period of forest development plans - Repealed 4. Notice of extension of a forest development plan - Repealed 5. Best information available 6. Site-specific variation within plans 7. District manager may require referral of operational plans 7.1 Minor amendments to operational plans 7.2 District manager actions if amendments wrongly made 7.3 Circumstances where minor amendments may not be made without approval 7.4 Amendments to logging plans PART 3 - FOREST DEVELOPMENT PLANS Division 1 - Scope and General Content for Forest Development Plans 8. Application 9. Area under forest development plans 10. Signature required for forest development plans 11. Maximum cutblock size Division 2 - Mapping and Assessments 12. Terrain mapping in community watersheds 13. Forest health assessment required before review of forest development plans 14. Watershed assessments required before review of forest development plans 15. Riparian assessment required for community watersheds 16. Terrain stability field assessment required for community watersheds 17. Terrain stability field assessment required for areas outside community watersheds 17.1 Prescribed forest resources Division 3 - Map and Information Requirements for all Forest Development Plans 18. Map and information requirements for all forest development plans 18.1 Stocking requirements for areas under a site plan 18.2 Post harvest stand structure for areas without regeneration objectives 18.3 Optional content for a forest development plan 18.4 Review and comment not required for sections 18.1 to 18.3 [Repealed] Division 4 - Forest Development Plan Contents for Categories of Cutblocks 19. Category I cutblocks and roads for information purposes only 20. Category A cutblocks 21. Limited protection for cutblocks and roads 22. Protection for cutblocks and roads 23. Transition Division 5 - Notice, Review and Comment 24. Application of this division 25. Notice 26. Submitting forest development plan and assessments 27. Review 28. Comments 29. Scope of review and comment 30. Submitting a proposed forest development plan and comments PART 4 - LOGGING PLANS 31. Scope of logging plans 32. Logging plan map 33. Logging plan content 34. Exemptions 35. Signature of holder 36. Review and comment PART 4.1 - SITE PLANS 36.1 Information that must be obtained before a site plan may be prepared 36.2 Content of site plans 36.3 Exemptions from site plans PART 5 - SILVICULTURE PRESCRIPTIONS Division 1 - Scope and Content 37. Information that must be available before a silviculture prescription may be approved 38. Assessment results 39. Content of prescriptions 40. Exemption from silviculture prescription may be subject to conditions Division 2 - Specific Development Requirements 41. Species selection Division 3 - Silviculture Prescriptions for Non-Replaceable Licences 41.1 Application 42. Criteria for determining costs of silviculture prescription 43. Prescribed date of prescription 44. Additional requirements to be a holder of a prescription under section 71 of the Act 45. Requirements that must be met before the government can assume responsibility for a prescription 46. District manager may require amendment of prescriptions approved prior to May 15, 1996 47. Review and comment Division 4 - Division 4 - Definition of Provincial Protected Areas 47.1 Provincial protected areas PART 6 - STAND MANAGEMENT PRESCRIPTIONS - Repealed 48. Definitions - Repealed 49. Treatments and objectives for treatments - Repealed 50. Content of stand management prescriptions - Repealed 51. Review and comment - Repealed PART 7 - RANGE USE PLANS Division 1 - Definitions 52. Definitions Division 2 - Information Supplied by District Manager 52.1 Information respecting a range use plan - general 52.2 Information respecting a range use plan - grazing 52.3 Information respecting a range use plan - hay cutting 52.4 Information respecting a range use plan prepared by the district manager 52.5 District manager may change information Division 2.1 - Range Use Plan Content 53. General content 53.1 Grazing content 53.2 Hay cutting content 54. Limited content for unfenced grazing land Division 2.2 - Amendment of Range Use Plan to Protect Forest Resources 54.1 District manager must require amendment to range use plan Division 3 - Notice, Review and Comment 56. Notice 57. Submitting a proposed plan before review and comment 58. Review and comment PART 8 - RIPARIAN MANAGEMENT AREAS Division 1 - Streams 59. Riparian classes of streams 60. Maximum widths of riparian reserve zones and riparian management zones Division 2 - Wetlands 61. Riparian classes of wetlands 62. Maximum widths of reiparian reserve zones and riparian management zones for wetlands Division 3 - Lakes 63. Riparian classes of lakes 64. Maximum widths of riparian reserve zones and riparian management zones for lakes PART 9 - COMMUNITY WATERSHEDS 65. Community watershed designation: reivew and comment 66. Community watershed designation: notice of an impending order PART 10 - GREEN-UP 67. Definitions 68. Greened-up PART 10.1 - UNGULATE WINTER RANGE, IDENTIFIED WILDLIFE AND FOREST ECOSYSTEM NETWORK 69. Ungulate winter range 70. Identified wildlife and general wildlife measures 71. Regionally important and identified threatened or endangered fish 71.1 Forest ecosystem network

OPERATIONAL AND SITE PLANNING REGULATION

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