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Forest, Parks & Recreation asks committee to add late amendment to preserve 1997 heavy-cutting rule
Summary
The Commissioner of Forests, Parks & Recreation and staff requested a late amendment to H.484 to allow publication of a 1997 'heavy cutting' rule that governs certain large-scale timber operations; agency officials said a 2016 change to administrative procedure law could have repealed the rule because it was never published in code.
Daniel Fitsco, commissioner of the Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation, and Megan Kirby asked the Finance Committee on May 16 to add an amendment to H.484 that would allow the agency to publish a long-standing "heavy cutting" rule and preserve its permitting authority for large-scale timber harvests.
Fitsco explained the rule dates to 1997 and governs forest-management operations of 40 acres or more where the harvest moves forest condition below a…
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