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California fire agencies, RCDs and fire safe councils

Where is the treatment area?

Free checklist for a CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis: is your vegetation treatment within the program EIR, and what still needs new review.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door

ePlan fills in

  • Fire hazard zone
  • Vegetation and fuels
  • Special-status species
  • Streams
  • Slope

How it works

CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis checklist, from one answer

  1. Map the treatment area and pick the treatments.
  2. ePlan checks species, streams and fuels and lists what the analysis must cover.
  3. Read the checklist free; your agency's staff make the findings. Ready for the full papers? Start a fuel break plan draft.

What you get

CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis checklist and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Fuel break plan door.

The first draft

CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis checklist (free)

  1. Treatment area and type
  2. Within the program EIR's scope?
  3. Environmental setting from public maps
  4. Standard project requirements to apply
  5. Mitigation measures to apply
  6. New effects needing more review

Modeled on: CalVTP Program EIR and the Board of Forestry's Project-Specific Analysis materials

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Fuel break plan and environmental review

  1. Project area and fuels
  2. Treatment prescription
  3. Environmental setting
  4. Mitigation measures

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

30 days

after a Notice of Determination is filed is the window to challenge a CEQA decision; 180 days with no notice
Source: 14 CCR 15112(c)

Ready for the paperwork?

Name your fuel break and answer four questions. Read a draft scoping letter and decision memo under the fuel-break CE (16 U.S.C. 6592b), free.

Fuel break plan →

Questions

CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis: what people ask

Do CalVTP projects need a new CEQA document?

Not if the activity is within the scope of the program EIR. If it would have effects the program EIR did not examine, a new initial study is needed.

Source: law.cornell.edu

Is the CalVTP being updated?

Yes. The Board of Forestry is preparing a Subsequent Program EIR for a CalVTP update. Public scoping ran from January 9 to February 26, 2026.

Source: bof.fire.ca.gov

Where are the official PSA materials?

The Board of Forestry's CalVTP page provides tools and materials for preparing a Project-Specific Analysis.

Source: bof.fire.ca.gov

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Answer it and ePlan opens the Fuel break plan door, which drafts the paperwork.