CEQA Notices

Public Notice to Adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration, Red Mountain OHV Staging Area Project

The OHMVR Division proposes to award grant funds to the Sierra National Forest to construct a one-acre OHV staging area in the High Sierra Ranger District in Fresno County, California. The project would include parking for up to 15 OHV trucks and trailers, a double-vault toilet, 7 day-use picnic sites, informational signs, and pedestrian pathways. The project is needed to address dispersed parking along road 8S10 or 8S42, which results in safety issues, resource concerns, range conflicts, and traffic congestion. The existing user-created staging areas would be closed after project construction.

Public Notice to Adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration, China Wall OHV Staging Area Expansion/Loops 5 and 6 Reroutes Project

The OHMVR Division proposes to award grant funds to the Tahoe National Forest to expand the existing China Wall Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) and Over Snow Vehicle Staging Area (China Wall) by 61,200 square feet to provide for approximately 24 vehicle/trailer combinations, and to construct 6 reroutes that would replace 4.5 miles of existing unsustainable trail in the Sugar Pine OHV trail system on Loop 5 (T15N, R11E, Sec. 10, 11, 13, & 14) and Loop 6 (T15N, R11E, Sec. 25, 35, & 36). The China Wall OHV Staging Area Expansion (China Wall SA Expansion) would re-pave existing parking areas; pave the expanded area to match existing paved areas; remove and replace the existing and outdated double-unit concrete vault restroom and install one new double-unit concrete vault toilet; install two bear proof garbage cans; construct a connector trail to OHV Loop 5 (11E43), approximately 50 feet in distance; install barriers, such as large boulders, around the edge of the expanded parking area to restrict use outside and define the boundaries of the expanded area; fell and remove approximately 200 trees; and install additional signage, to include an informational kiosk and directional parking signs. Loops 5 and 6 are single-track trails open to motorcycles and nonmotorized users only. The Loops 5 and 6 Reroutes involve flagging reroute sections, cutting the primary corridor, constructing the new trail alignment, and diverting riders to the newly aligned trail segments using barriers and signage.