(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms apply: (1) âActivitiesâ means the specific actions performed to support a treatment, including, but not limited to, mechanical fuel reduction, hand fuel reduction, prescribed fire, or any other appropriate activities. (2) âFire prevention effortsâ include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (A) Fire prevention education. (B) Hazardous fuel reduction and vegetation management treatments and activities. (C) Fire investigation. (D) Civil cost recovery. (E) Forest and fire law enforcement. (F) Fire prevention engineering. (G) Prefire planning. (H) Risk analysis. (I) Volunteer programs and partnerships. (3) âParticipating in wildfire resilience activitiesâ means dedicating an average of at least 15 percent of working hours, but less than 75 percent of working hours, to wildfire resilience-related activities. (4) âPrimarily focused on wildfire resilience activitiesâ means dedicating an average of at least 75 percent of working hours to wildfire resilience-related activities. (5) âTreatmentâ means actions conducted on the ground to meet a management objective, including, but not limited to, installation and maintenance of fuel breaks, fuels reduction, roadside fuels reduction, forest thinning, prescribed fire, reforestation, timber harvesting, fuel treatments in the wildland-urban interface, dead fuel removal, and all other treatments that reasonably could be considered fuels reduction or vegetation management. (6) âUniqueâ means nonduplicated for the reporting year and, where multiple years are reported, across all of the years reported. (7) âWildfire resilience activitiesâ include, but are not limited to, defensible space inspections and the activities identified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2). (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the year-round staffing and the shift to a 66-hour workweek that have been provided to the department pursuant to memorandums of understanding with the state will result in significant increases in the departmentâs current level of fire prevention and wildfire resilience activities. It is also the intent of the Legislature that the budgetary augmentations for year-round staffing not reduce the reimbursements that the department receives from contracts with local governments for the department to provide local fire protection and emergency services pursuant to Section 4144, commonly referred to as âAmador agreements.â (c) On or before March 1 of each year, the department shall provide a report to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, the Assembly Committee on Budget, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water, the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, and the Legislative Analystâs Office, in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, detailing the departmentâs fire prevention efforts, including the increased activities described in subdivision (b). The report shall display the fire prevention efforts of the previous fiscal year, as well as the information from each of the prior two reporting years for purposes of a comparison of data. The report shall include, but not be limited to, by department administrative unit and statewide total, all of the following: (1) Fire prevention efforts performed by the department on lands designated as state responsibility areas. The fire prevention efforts included in the report pursuant to this paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (A) The number of hours department personnel spent primarily focused on wildfire resilience activities, by activity, the number of hours department personnel spent participating in wildfire resilience activities, by activity, and the number of hours spent on emergency incident response, by type. (B) The number of department personnel by classification that are (i) primarily focused on wildfire resilience activities and (ii) participating in wildfire resil
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