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Volume 67, No. 13

222/2024

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 16, 2024

B.C. Reg. 222/2024 , deposited July 15, 2024, under the FOREST AND RANGE PRACTICES ACT [sections 141, 143 and 158]. Order in Council 503/2024, approved and ordered July 15, 2024.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Tree Seeds and Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 138/2019, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— B. RALSTON, Minister of Forests ; G. CHOW, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 3 of the Tree Seeds and Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 138/2019, is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) (

b) by striking out " climactic " and substituting " climatic ", and

(

b) in subsection (2) by striking out " $0.03 " and substituting " $0.04 ".

Section 5 is amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the following:

(1) The fee to process seeds for registration and storage is the sum of all of the following fees that are applicable:

(

a) if extraction of the seeds from cones is not required, $100;

(

b) if extraction of the seeds from cones is required, the fee determined under subsection (2);

(

c) if atypical effort is required to process the seeds or the person to whom the service is provided requests that the seeds be processed in a special manner, the fee determined under subsection (3). ,

(

b) in subsection (2) (

a) by striking out " $150 " and substituting " $200 ",

(

c) in subsection (2) (b) (ii) (

A) by striking out " $200 " and substituting " $267 ",

(

d) in subsection (2) (b) (ii) (

B) by striking out " $300 " and substituting " $401 ",

(

e) by repealing subsection (2) (b) (iii),

(

f) in subsection (3) by striking out " subsection (2) (b) (iii) " and substituting " subsection (1) (c) ", and

(

g) in subsections (3) (

a) and (4) by striking out " $60 " and substituting " $80 ".

Section 6 (1) is amended by striking out " $24 " and substituting " $32 ".

Section 7 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) (

a) by striking out " $16 " and substituting " $21 ", and

(

b) by repealing subsection (2) and substituting the following:

(2) The fee for pelleting is the sum of a basic fee of $83 and the fee per gram of seeds that the government is charged to have the seeds pelleted.

Section 8 is amended

(

a) in subsections (1) and (3) (

b) by striking out " $12 " and substituting " $16 ", and

(

b) in subsection (3) (

a) by striking out " $6 " and substituting " $8 ".

Schedule 1 is amended by repealing Tables 1 and 2 and substituting the following:

Table 1

Orchard Seeds

Item

Column 1

Tree

Column 2

Price per kg

Column 3

Germination

index

Alder, red

$13 000

90%

Birch, paper

$19 200

85%

Douglas-fir – coastal

$5 330

90%

Douglas-fir – interior

$5 100

90%

Fir, subalpine (balsam)

$2 390

60%

Hemlock, western

$7 000

90%

Larch, western

$4 540

85%

Pine, lodgepole

$9 860

90%

Pine, ponderosa (yellow)

$1 600

85%

Pine, western white

$3 050

85%

Redcedar, western

$9 830

85%

Spruce, Sitka

$4 000

90%

Spruce, white, Engelmann or any hybrid

$5 150

85%

Table 2

Wild Seeds

Item

Column 1

Tree

Column 2

Price per kg

Column 3

Germination

index

Alder, red

$533

65%

Birch, paper

$493

75%

Cedar, yellow (cypress)

$4 090

40%

Douglas-fir – coastal, 1966 crop

$582

80%

Douglas-fir – coastal, other crops

$1 020

90%

Douglas-fir – interior

$757

90%

Fir, amabilis (Pacific silver)

$329

75%

Fir, grand

$264

80%

Fir, noble

$230

60%

Fir, subalpine (balsam)

$527

60%

Hemlock, mountain

$2 420

85%

Hemlock, western

$1 893

90%

Larch, western

$2 075

85%

Pine, limber

$3 400

45%

Pine, lodgepole – coastal

$1 678

90%

Pine, lodgepole – interior

$2 016

90%

Pine, ponderosa (yellow)

$329

90%

Pine, western white

$1 235

85%

Redcedar, western

$1 843

80%

Spruce, other than Sitka

$909

90%

Spruce, Sitka

$1 103

90%

Schedule 2 is amended by repealing Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 and substituting the following:

Table 1

Processing Fees

Item

Column 1

Tree

Column 2

Fee per hL of cones

Alder

$126

Birch

$126

Cedar, yellow (cypress)

$126

Douglas-fir

$107

Fir, amabilis (Pacific silver), grand, noble or

subalpine (balsam)

$227

Hemlock, western or mountain

$136

Larch

$126

Pine, limber, ponderosa (yellow), western white or whitebark

$115

Pine, lodgepole

$96

Redcedar, western

$126

Spruce, black

$147

Spruce, other than black

$96

Table 2

Germination Tests

Item

Column 1

Tree

Column 2

Fee

Alder

$57

Aspen

$57

Birch

$57

Cedar, yellow (cypress)

$120

Douglas-fir

$49

Fir, amabilis (Pacific silver), noble or subalpine (balsam)

$120

Fir, grand

$91

Hemlock

$67

Larch

$67

Pine, western white or whitebark

$120

Pine, lodgepole, ponderosa (yellow) or limber

$49

Redcedar, western

$57

Spruce

$49

Table 3

Other Tests

Item

Column 1

Tree

Column 2

Fee

Fungal assay

actual cost

Moisture test

$19

Purity test

$49

Weight test

$27

X-ray test

$19

Table 4

Stratification

Item

Column 1

Stratification

Column 2

Fee

Stratification of yellow cedar, western white pine and whitebark pine seeds

$174

Stratification of other seeds for ≤ 4 weeks

$53

Stratification of other seeds for > 4 weeks

$73

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