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• AB38: state law requiring homes for sale to be inspected for defensible space disclosure

• BLM - Bureau of Land Management

• BRIC – Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities

• CO 2477 (formerly CO 2463) - County Hazardous Vegetation Ordinance (right to extend 100 feet beyond property line & rural road rules 10-10-15)

• Cal Fire - California State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

• CEQA – California Environmental Quality Act

• CWPP – Community Wildfire Protection Plan 

• DSAV - Defensible Space Advisory Visit (free, from a trained Fire Safe Council volunteer)

• DSI - Defensible Space Inspector - County employee empowered to enforce codes

• EQIP - Environmental Quality Incentives Program

• EIR – Environmental Impact Report

• EPA – Environmental Protection Agency

• FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency

• FWC - Firewise Community

• FSC - Fire Safe Council

• FSNCC - Fire Safe Nevada County Coalition

• GIS – Geographic Information Systems

• IC - Incident Commander

• ICP - Incident Command Post

• LTO - Licensed Timber Operator

• NCSO - Nevada County Sheriff's Office

• NFPA – National Fire Protection Association

• OES - Office of Emergency Services, County of Nevada

• PRC 4291 - Public Resource Code concerning 100ft of Defensible Space around homes

• RPF - Registered Professional Forester

• SAF – Society of American Foresters

• SAR - Search and Rescue (volunteers supporting the NC Sheriff's Office)

• SYRCL – South Yuba River Citizens League

• THP - Timber Harvest Plan

• TNF – Tahoe National Forest

• TPZ – Timber Production Zone

• WUI – Wildland Urban Interface

• YWI – Yub Watershed Institute