Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §8883, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1999, c. 361, §7, is further amended to read:

5. Notification exemption. The following activities are exempt from the notification requirement under this section:

A. Activities where forest products are harvested for an owner's own use and are not sold or offered for sale or used in the owner's primary wood-using plants; and

B. Precommercial silvicultural forestry activities; and .

C. Harvesting within a 12-month period when the total area harvested on land owned by that landowner does not exceed:

(1) Two acres if the residual basal area of acceptable growing stock over 4 1/2 inches in diameter measured at 4 1/2 feet above the ground is less than 30 square feet basal area per acre; or

(2) Five acres if the residual basal area of acceptable growing stock over 4 1/2 inches in diameter measured at 4 1/2 feet above the ground is more than 30 square feet basal area per acre.

SUMMARY

This bill removes an exemption to harvest notification procedures and eliminates a problem some small landowners and loggers have had with mills that will not take wood if the trip ticket does not have a notification number on it.