Health & Saf. Code, § 39740.1 · Article 1. Natural and Working Lands
Health & Saf. Code, § 39740.1
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Natural and working lands-based carbon sequestration” means sustainable resource management practices, changes in land use, preservation of natural resources, fuel reduction or prescribed fire activities, and other practices that result in the long-term removal, capture, or sequestration of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow or reverse atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution and to mitigate or reverse global warming.
(b) “Natural lands” has the same meaning as in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 9001.5 of the Public Resources Code.
(c) “Registry” means the California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry established pursuant to Section 39740.3.
(d) “Whole orchard recycling” means the onsite grinding or chipping of whole trees during orchard removal, and incorporation of the ground or chipped biomass into the topsoil prior to replanting.
(e) “Working lands” has the same meaning as in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 9001.5 of the Public Resources Code.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 117, Sec. 1. (AB 2101) Effective January 1, 2023.
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