You are invited to comment on the Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) decision to designate the Sustainable Harvest Calculation (SHC) project as a significant agency action under the Healthy Environment For All Act (HEAL Act).
The SHC is legally required project conducted by DNR with the goal of determining how much timber can be responsibly harvested from forested state trust lands. The SHC sets a sustainable limit for timber harvest over a ten-year period that balances economic needs with ecological and social goals. While the project does not direct where and when individual timber sales will occur, it is used as an internal management tool to guide the overall volume of wood to be harvested in a planning decade. The SHC is divided into two projects: one for the Westside SHC and another for the Eastside SHC.
The HEAL Act is an environmental justice law with the purpose of reducing environmental and health disparities from covered state agency projects to Washington state residents. Although the SHC does not directly fall under a significant agency action category in the HEAL Act, DNR has decided to designate the project an additional significant agency action because it will govern a series of connected actions (such as timber sales). The determination will require an environmental justice assessment be conducted and published on both SHC projects. This comment period is focused on this designation and the decision to conduct an environmental justice assessment on the project, not the overall project.
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You are invited to comment on the Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) decision to designate the Sustainable Harvest Calculation (SHC) project as a significant agency action under the Healthy Environment For All Act (HEAL Act).
The SHC is legally required project conducted by DNR with the goal of determining how much timber can be responsibly harvested from forested state trust lands. The SHC sets a sustainable limit for timber harvest over a ten-year period that balances economic needs with ecological and social goals. While the project does not direct where and when individual timber sales will occur, it is used as an internal management tool to guide the overall volume of wood to be harvested in a planning decade. The SHC is divided into two projects: one for the Westside SHC and another for the Eastside SHC.
The HEAL Act is an environmental justice law with the purpose of reducing environmental and health disparities from covered state agency projects to Washington state residents. Although the SHC does not directly fall under a significant agency action category in the HEAL Act, DNR has decided to designate the project an additional significant agency action because it will govern a series of connected actions (such as timber sales). The determination will require an environmental justice assessment be conducted and published on both SHC projects. This comment period is focused on this designation and the decision to conduct an environmental justice assessment on the project, not the overall project.
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