Or. Admin. Code § 629-625-0920 - Road Condition Assessment
(1) The purpose of this rule is to ensure
that roads used for harvest and owned by small forestland owners, as defined by
OAR 629-600-0100, comply with the
standards of the Forest Practices Rules.
(2) The requirements of the Forest Road
Inventory and Assessment program described in OAR
629-625-0900 do not apply to
small forestland owners.
(3) When a
small forestland owner submits a notification including the harvest of timber
using the department's reporting and notification system, they shall complete
the department road condition assessment. Notifications for activities other
than timber harvest shall not require completion of a road condition
assessment. The small forestland owner is encouraged to complete the road
condition assessment for all roads in their parcel without a planned timber
harvest.
(4) The road condition
assessment shall include all roads in the parcel owned by the small forestland
owner where the harvest will take place, including the following descriptions:
(a) The road condition that contributes to
active or potential delivery of sediment to waters of the state;
(b) Water crossing's locations and the status
of compliance with the forest practice rules;
(c) Potential fish passage barriers on Type F
and Type SSBT streams;
(d)
Abandoned roads; and
(e) Roads with
a perched fill that present a significant hazard to fish-bearing
streams.
(5) The
department, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, shall
review eligibility for state grants to improve the road conditions described in
section (4)(c), (d), and (e) of this rule.
(6) The small forestland owners are not
required to undertake the following road improvements projects, without funding
by the State of Oregon:
(a) Replacement of
culverts for Type F and Type SSBT streams;
(b) Repair of abandoned roads; or
(c) Reconstructing, vacating, or relocating
roads with a perched fill that present a significant hazard to fish-bearing
streams.
(7) If the State
of Oregon, under the small forestland investment in stream habitat program
described in OAR 629-607-0300, fails to fund an
eligible and approved road improvement project for a small forestland owner,
the non-implementation of those projects shall not prevent the small forestland
owner from using the road for any purpose, except for the following conditions:
(a) The road is actively delivering sediment
to waters of the state; or
(b) The
road has one or more culverts with an imminent risk of failure, as defined in
OAR 629-600-0100.
(8) If the road condition assessment
identifies necessary road repairs, other than the road conditions in section
(7)(a) and (b) of this rule, there shall be no time limit in which the small
forestland owner must complete those repairs, though the obligation to improve
roads when used for harvest remains.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 527.710 & Section 2(1), Chapter 33, Oregon Laws 2022
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 527.715, 527.765 & Section 2(2), Chapter 33, Oregon Laws 2022
State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare.
No prior version found.