Vol. 67, No. 13 – B.C. Reg. 222/2024

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

1 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".

2 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",

(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".

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

4 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.

5 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".

6 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
1	Alder, red	$13 000	90%
2	Birch, paper	$19 200	85%
3	Douglas-fir – coastal	$5 330	90%
4	Douglas-fir – interior	$5 100	90%
5	Fir, subalpine (balsam)	$2 390	60%
6	Hemlock, western	$7 000	90%
7	Larch, western	$4 540	85%
8	Pine, lodgepole	$9 860	90%
9	Pine, ponderosa (yellow)	$1 600	85%
10	Pine, western white	$3 050	85%
11	Redcedar, western	$9 830	85%
12	Spruce, Sitka	$4 000	90%
13	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
1	Alder, red	$533	65%
2	Birch, paper	$493	75%
3	Cedar, yellow (cypress)	$4 090	40%
4	Douglas-fir – coastal, 1966 crop	$582	80%
5	Douglas-fir – coastal, other crops	$1 020	90%
6	Douglas-fir – interior	$757	90%
7	Fir, amabilis (Pacific silver)	$329	75%
8	Fir, grand	$264	80%
9	Fir, noble	$230	60%
10	Fir, subalpine (balsam)	$527	60%
11	Hemlock, mountain	$2 420	85%
12	Hemlock, western	$1 893	90%
13	Larch, western	$2 075	85%
14	Pine, limber	$3 400	45%
15	Pine, lodgepole – coastal	$1 678	90%
16	Pine, lodgepole – interior	$2 016	90%
17	Pine, ponderosa (yellow)	$329	90%
18	Pine, western white	$1 235	85%
19	Redcedar, western	$1 843	80%
20	Spruce, other than Sitka	$909	90%
21	Spruce, Sitka	$1 103	90%

7 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
1	Alder	$126
2	Birch	$126
3	Cedar, yellow (cypress)	$126
4	Douglas-fir	$107
5	Fir, amabilis (Pacific silver), grand, noble or subalpine (balsam)	$227
6	Hemlock, western or mountain	$136
7	Larch	$126
8	Pine, limber, ponderosa (yellow), western white or whitebark	$115
9	Pine, lodgepole	$96
10	Redcedar, western	$126
11	Spruce, black	$147
12	Spruce, other than black	$96

Table 2
Germination Tests

Item	Column 1 Tree	Column 2 Fee
1	Alder	$57
2	Aspen	$57
3	Birch	$57
4	Cedar, yellow (cypress)	$120
5	Douglas-fir	$49
6	Fir, amabilis (Pacific silver), noble or subalpine (balsam)	$120
7	Fir, grand	$91
8	Hemlock	$67
9	Larch	$67
10	Pine, western white or whitebark	$120
11	Pine, lodgepole, ponderosa (yellow) or limber	$49
12	Redcedar, western	$57
13	Spruce	$49

Table 3
Other Tests

Item	Column 1 Tree	Column 2 Fee
1	Fungal assay	actual cost
2	Moisture test	$19
3	Purity test	$49
4	Weight test	$27
5	X-ray test	$19

Table 4
Stratification

Item	Column 1 Stratification	Column 2 Fee
1	Stratification of yellow cedar, western white pine and whitebark pine seeds	$174
2	Stratification of other seeds for ≤ 4 weeks	$53
3	Stratification of other seeds for > 4 weeks	$73

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