4123.10.
(a) (1) On or before July 1, 2022, the department, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, the Office of Emergency Services, the Office of Planning and Research, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, shall establish a long-term forest management plan. The plan shall include the use of all the following programs:(A) Fuels reduction and prescribed fire.
(B) Vegetation management.
(C) Fuels management crews.
(D) Complementary partnerships at the local level through tribal governments, cities and counties,
fire safe councils, regional collaboratives, resource conservation districts, and others who protect forested landscapes and at-risk communities.
(E) Fuel breaks.
(2) The long-term forest management plan shall be constructed on a 5-year and 10-year period.
(b) On or before July 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, until July 1, 2033, the Office of Planning and Research shall prepare a report and provide it to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to inform the Legislature and public on the status of the long-term forest management plan prepared pursuant to subdivision (a) and provide information that will be useful for future decisionmaking regarding efforts to reduce wildfire risks and damages. If any funds are appropriated for purposes of supporting a program included in the plan during the most recent fiscal year,
the report shall include, for each program so funded, all of the of the following information:
(1) Summary of the projects implemented, including a quantification of the number of projects funded. Where relevant, the summary of projects implemented shall include information on the total number of acres treated, grants or loans awarded, home retrofits, or other quantifiable deliverables. The information provided shall be broken down by project type if the program supports different types of activities.
(2) Summary of costs to implement projects, by project type, including a cost breakdown for different types of expenditures, such as state employment costs, contracted services costs, equipment costs, and the awarding of grants or loans.
(3) Summary of how projects were selected, including information on prioritization
criteria used to select projects.
(4) Summary of geographic distribution, including number and costs of projects by region of the state.
(c) (1) On or before July 31, 2033, the Office of Planning and Research shall prepare a final report and provide it to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee regarding the long-term forest management plan described in subdivision (a), which shall include an assessment of all the information required in subdivision (b) over the previous 10 years.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the requirement for submitting a report under this subdivision is inoperative on July 31, 2037.