Regional wildfire partnerships.
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- Introduced
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Overview
This bill aims to improve wildfire prevention and resilience in California by establishing a framework for regional wildfire mitigation collaboratives. It allows these collaboratives, consisting of local governments, tribes, and special districts, to form as joint powers authorities and develop wildfire mitigation plans. The bill also creates a revolving fund, supported by revenue bonds, to finance these plans, with a focus on projects like structure hardening and insurance affordability. Furthermore, it revises the existing Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program to better align with these new collaborative efforts.
Key provisions
- Authorizes the formation of regional wildfire mitigation collaboratives as joint powers authorities.
- Requires collaboratives to develop and implement wildfire mitigation plans, including structure hardening and defensible space projects.
- Establishes a Regional Wildfire Mitigation Collaborative Partnership Revolving Fund to finance wildfire mitigation plans.
- Authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue revenue bonds to support the revolving fund.
- Requires regional wildfire partnerships to submit annual reports to the Department of Conservation.
- Revises the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program to align with regional collaboration.
- Allows regional entities to collaborate with insurance companies, utilities, and other private entities.
- Requires wildfire mitigation plans to consider improving property insurance availability.
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