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Forests and Parks asks legislature to reinstate long‑used 'heavy cut' rule after administrative lapse
Summary
The Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation requested statutory clarification to republish a heavy‑cut permit rule that was not formally published in the code and therefore would have been repealed by a 2018 APA provision; the department said the rule has been used since 1997 and FPR seeks to avoid redoing rulemaking work.
Danielle Fitsco, Commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation, told the committee that a rule governing "heavy cut" permits — in place since 1997 — was not published in the official code by a 2018 Administrative Procedure Act update and therefore could have been repealed by operation of law.
"We established those rules through emergency rule. And because we had such a robust process through the emergency rulemaking…
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