12.08.440 Other responsibilities of permittee.
The permittee shall also be responsible for the following:
A. Protection of Utilities. The permittee shall be responsible for the prevention of damage to any public utilities or services.
B. Protection of Adjacent Property. The property owner is responsible for the prevention of damage to adjacent property. No person(s) shall excavate on land sufficiently close to the property line to endanger any adjoining public street, sidewalk, alley or other public or private property, or easement, without supporting and protecting such property from damage which might result.
C. Advance Notice. The permittee shall notify the Planning Department at least 24 hours prior to the start of work.
D. Erosion and Sediment Control. It shall be the responsibility of the permittee to control discharge of sediment from the site to any watercourse, drainage system, or adjacent property and to protect watercourses and adjacent properties from damage by erosion, flooding or deposition which may result from the permitted grading.
E. Hazardous Materials Control. It shall be the responsibility of the permittee to prevent discharge of hazardous materials from the site to any watercourse, drainage system, or adjacent property, and to protect watercourses and adjacent properties by hazardous materials, which may result from permitted grading.
F. Federal, State and Local Permits. It shall be the permittee’s responsibility to obtain all necessary permits and follow all permit requirements of agencies having jurisdiction over any aspect of the proposed project. While every project is different in terms of location, site constraints, area of disturbance, proximity to water or wetlands, etc., and therefore may or may not trigger certain jurisdictions’ requirements, typical permits and certifications include the following:
1. Encroachment permit (Sierra County Department of Transportation or CalTrans) or USFS special use permit (for projects encroaching onto, or directly accessed via, a county, state or federal public right-of-way, respectively).
2. CalFire (CDF) PRC 4290/4291 compliance checklist (most driveways outside existing townsites).
3. Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District (NSAQMD) approved “dust control plan” (for projects disturbing more than one acre).
4. State Water Resource Control Board NPDES storm water discharge permit, evidenced by a copy of that agency’s notice of intent (NOI) receipt letter containing the waste discharger’s identification (WDID) number (for projects disturbing more than one acre); or in Lahontan region’s “little Truckee hydrologic area” (more than 10,000 square feet).
5. Department of Fish and Game (DFG) streambed alteration agreement (any work done in a stream corridor from top of bank through the bed of a river, creek or stream to the top of the other bank, including tree and shrub removal, diverting water, filling, and excavation).
6. California Regional Water Quality Control Board/Federal Clean Water Act section 401 permit for water quality certification (any filling of materials into waters of the U.S. or waters of the state).
7. United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Federal Clean Water Act section 404 permit (any filling of materials into waters of the U.S. or adjacent wetlands, especially shown as a blue line on a USGS topo map as a perennial or intermittent stream, river, or creek, and especially with flows of five cubic feet per second or more, or with wetlands vegetation like willows, rushes, or sedges).