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California launches streamlined online permitting process to fast-track critical wildfire safety projects

tate officials report that a new online streamlining request process cuts bureaucratic red tape and now makes it faster to get state approval to implement forest and vegetation management projects, which are critical to reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires. 

This new process will shorten project approvals to as little as 30 days — saving a year or more of review and red tape for more complicated projects.

Officials said this builds on consecutive years of intensive and focused work by the State of California to confront the severe ongoing risk of catastrophic wildfires, and most recently Governor Newsom’s emergency proclamation. 

Read more in Lake County News here.

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