Fire protection: local fire planning.

(1) Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, on or before July 1, 2022, to develop criteria for and maintain a "Fire Risk Reduction Community" list of local agencies located in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone that meet best practices for local fire planning. Existing law requires the state board to consider certain things when developing the criteria for the list, including recently developed or updated community wildfire protection plans. This bill would also require the state board, when considering developing criteria for the list, to consider compliance with the state board's regulations, including minimum fire safety standards. The bill would require the state board to post the list on its internet website. The bill would also repeal a duplicative and inoperative provision that incorrectly names the list. (2) Existing law establishes the Forest Management Task Force pursuant to a specified executive order issued by the Governor, and requires the task force or its successor entity, on or before July 1, 2020, in consultation with specified entities, to develop recommendations for siting additional wood product manufacturing facilities in the state. Existing law specifies that it is the intent of the Legislature, in developing those recommendations, that the location and activities of the mass timber production facilities be, among other things, located in, or be approximate to, areas that are near the locations of large landscape fires, as described, and in areas identified as federal opportunity zones or in areas that have an average household income of 5% below the state's median household income. This bill would add a definition of the task force for purposes of those provisions and recast the median household income threshold from 5% below to at least 5% below the state's median household income. (3) Existing law requires, on or before January 31, 2020, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in consultation with the state board, to identify barriers to in-state production of mass timber and other innovative forest products, and develop solutions that are consistent with the state's climate objectives on forest lands. This bill would extend the compliance date from on or before January 31, 2020, to on or before July 1, 2020.